Seasonal trends in intestinal nematode infection and medicinal plant use among chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains Tanzania

Primates

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-125

  Huffman, Michael A ^a   Gotoh, Shunji ^a   Turner, Linda A ^a   Hamai, Miya ^b,d   Yoshida, Kozo ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiparasite behavior; Easonal variation; Oesophagostomum stephanostomum; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; Sampling bias

Indexed keywords

OESOPHAGOSTOMUM STEPHANOSTOMUM; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; STEPHANOSTOMUM; STRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLOIDES FUELLEBORNI; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; TROGLODYTES;

CHIMPANZEE; INTESTINAL NEMATODE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PARASITISM; PLANT USE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

TANZANIA, MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 0031416447     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02382002     Document Type: Article

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