Study of ecology of chimpanzees and other animals
Gen'ichi IDANI
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I started the ecological anthropology on traditional fishing in Okinawa at 1984. At the same time, I have been studying wild bonobos in Democratic Republic of the Cong (Zaire). I have also been studying wild chimpanzees and other mammals at the western Congo and the Ugalla area, Tanzania since 1991. On the other hand, I have been promoting welfare studies for captive great apes in Japan. I aim to understand sociality of wild animals through their ecology and ethology, and to create new fields of academic study in the natural science.
Eriko g IIDA
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Recently, many paleoanthropologists argue that human evolution in its early stage occurred in woodland not in open land. Some primatologists have been studying chimpanzees in woodland, Western Tanzania for this reason. In order to have better insights of human evolution through hominid adaptation in woodland ecosystem, it is also important to have better understanding of ecology and behaviors of other sympatric mammals which are less known compared to those of chimpanzees. In this study, I aimed to collect basic data on mammalian fauna at Ugalla, Western Tanzania, especially focusing on bush hyraxes (Heterohyrax brucei).