... in a montane population of the rare and relatively understudied Nigerian/Cameroon chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ellioti ) in Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve, Nigeria. The forest is small, isolated, and visited by researchers, community members, and hunters. We also tested the hypothesis that people (researchers...

...) at a geographical and climatic outlier, Gashaka Gumti National Park (Nigeria), the wettest and most forested site so far studied. Despite abundant wildlife, meat eating was rare and selective. Over 16 years, baboons killed 7 bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) and 3 red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus) , mostly...

... of Anthropology, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, N.Y., USA; bDepartment of Forestry and Wildlife, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria Key Words. Cercopithecus sclateri Cercopithecus erythrotis Guenons Distribution Habitat Nigeria In 1904, R.I. Pocock [1] described a new species of spot-nosed...

... of southwest Nigeria, where it is most typically seen in dense, tangled growth below 15 m. Throughout the range of C erythrogaster , forests are being destroyed at a rapid rate and hunting for meat is intense, threatening the survival of the species. Alternative hypotheses for the existence of an endemic...

...D.C.D. Happold New records from the high forest zone of western Nigeria extend the known distribution of the red crowned mangabey, Cercocebus torquatus torquatus, as far west as the Dahomey Gap. The zoogeography of Cercocebus torquatus is discussed. 9 9 2008 © 1973 S. Karger AG, Basel...

...D.A. Schlitter; J. Phillips; G.E. Kemp The distribution of the white-collared mangabey, Cercocebus torquatus, is shown to extend west`ward as far as the Igangan Forest Reserve near the Dahomey border in southwestern Nigeria. Additional Nigerian specimens deposited in the British Museum (Natural...