Bonobos and People at Wamba: 50 Years of Research

Chapter 1. A Journey to Discover Wamba.- Chapter 2. From the Early Days of Bonobo Research.- Chapter 3. Science's Early Reception of a "New" Ape.- Chapter 4. Column: Mongo Forest.- Chapter 5. Column: Wamba: Base Camp for My Study in Zaïre.- Chapter 6. Column: Following Bonobos in the Forest.- Chapter 7. Column: Researchers Are Part of the Wamba Ecosystem.- Chapter 8. Sexual Behaviors and Hormonal Background of Female Bonobos.- Chapter 9. Personality Quirks and Polymorphic Genes in Bonobos.- Chapter 10. Within- and Between-Group Kin Structure of Wild Bonobos in Comparison to Other African Great Apes.- Chapter 11. Hunting and Meat-Eating Behaviors of Bonobos at Wamba: Comparison With Other Bonobo Study Sites.- Chapter 12. The Puzzle of Pan Tool Use: Why are Bonobos so Different from Chimpanzees in Their Use of Tools?.- Chapter 13. A Closer Look at Grooming Patterns in Bonobos.- Chapter 14. Bonobo Gestures, Meanings, and Context.- Chapter 15. Multiple Phases of Natal Transfer Processin Female Bonobos and Factors Underlying Each Phase: Findings from Long-Term Observations in Wild Populations.- Chapter 16. Social Behaviors of Nulliparous Adolescent Female Bonobos.- Chapter 17. Column: What Kinds of Sexual Functions Does Genito-Genital Rubbing Have as a Socio-Sexual Behavior?.- Chapter 18. Column: Food Sharing in Rich Environments.- Chapter 19. Column: Staying Together.- Chapter 20. Column: Exploring Bonobo Habitat Use in Wamba: Findings and Implications.- Chapter 21. Aggressive Behaviors and Social Dominance in Bonobos.- Chapter 22. Social Relationships in Female Bonobos.- Chapter 23. Intermale Relationships in Wild Bonobos at Wamba.- Chapter 24. Potential Benefits of Intergroup Associations and Chronological Changes of Intergroup Relationships in Bonobos.- Chapter 25. Column: From Nests and Videos to Wamba Bonobos.- Chapter 26. Column: Intergroup Aggression in Bonobos at Wamba.- Chapter 27. History of Anthropological Studies Around Wamba.- Chapter 28.

Takeshi Furuichi is an emeritus professor and a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University, Japan. From 1991 he worked at Meiji-Gakuin University and since 2008 he has worked at the Primate Research Institute and the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University. His main research interests include the female life history and the social organization of great apes, and the process of human evolution. He has 40 years of experience in research on bonobos at Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and 27 years of research on chimpanzees at Kalinzu Forest Reserve, Uganda. He also played an important role in the conservation of great apes as a member of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group executive committee. 

 



Gen'ichi Idani is an emeritus professor and a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University, Japan. He has been a professor and director of the Wildlife Research Center at Kyoto University since 2008. His research interestsinclude the sociology of African great apes and the socio-ecology of large mammals. He is also the general director of the Japan Monkey Centre and the academic advisor of the Kyoto City Zoo.  



Daiji Kimura was a professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, until 2020. He is an emeritus professor at Kyoto University and a specially appointed professor at the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University. Since 1986, he has been conducting anthropological research on the Bongando people in the Wamba region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

 Hiroshi Ihobe is a professor at the School of Human Sciences, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan.He has conducted fieldwork on bonobos, chimpanzees, red colobus, and guenons at Wamba, in the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania, and in the Kalinzu Forest in Uganda since 1986. His research interests include the socio-ecology ofprimates, especially