Tracing the origins of rescued chimpanzees reveals widespread chimpanzee hunting in Cameroon

BMC Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ghobrial, Lora ^a   Lankester, Felix ^b   Kiyang, John A ^b   Akih, Akih E ^b   de Vries, Simone ^b   Fotso, Roger ^c   Gadsby, Elizabeth L ^d   Jenkins Jr, Peter D ^d   Gonder, Mary K ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Limbe Wildlife Centre   (Cameroon)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cameroon)

^d Drill Rehabilitation Breeding Centre   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; PAN;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NIGERIA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRIME; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NIGERIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77649290850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-10-2     Document Type: Article

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