Jill Pruetz
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American anthropologist and primatologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jill Pruetz is an American anthropologist and primatologist. She currently works in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University. Pruetz is known for her groundbreaking research on savanna-dwelling chimpanzees in Senegal and her uncanny ability to engage public audiences. Pruetz has worked with the National Geographic Society and National Science Foundation. Her research has also been shared by media icons such as the Today Show, BBC, and Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson.
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- Savanna Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, Hunt with Tools (2007) (422)
- Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts (2014) (357)
- Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Behavioral Responses to Stresses Associated With Living in a Savanna-Mosaic Environment: Implications for Hominin Adaptations to Open Habitats (2009) (189)
- Movements of vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) as estimators of food resource size, density, and distribution (1998) (173)
- Do "savanna" chimpanzees consume C4 resources? (2006) (158)
- Correlations of food distribution and patch size with agonistic interactions in female vervets (Chlorocebus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) living in simple habitats (2000) (143)
- Do Chimpanzee Nests Serve an Anti‐Predatory Function? (2013) (107)
- Differences Between Vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and Patas Monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in Agonistic Interactions Between Adult Females (1998) (103)
- Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing (2016) (100)
- Evidence of cave use by savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: implications for thermoregulatory behavior (2007) (91)
- Survey of Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Southeastern Sénégal (2002) (88)
- Locomotor activity differences between sympatric patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops): implications for the evolution of long hindlimb length in Homo. (1998) (82)
- Insectivory of savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal. (2011) (82)
- New evidence on the tool-assisted hunting exhibited by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a savannah habitat at Fongoli, Sénégal (2015) (81)
- Patterns of gastro‐intestinal parasites and commensals as an index of population and ecosystem health: the case of sympatric western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and guinea baboons (Papio hamadryas papio) at Fongoli, Senegal (2011) (78)
- Brief communication: Reaction to fire by savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: Conceptualization of "fire behavior" and the case for a chimpanzee model. (2009) (66)
- Do chimpanzees build comfortable nests? (2007) (65)
- The costs of living at the edge: Seasonal stress in wild savanna-dwelling chimpanzees. (2018) (56)
- Seasonal Variation in Physiology Challenges the Notion of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) as a Forest-Adapted Species (2018) (52)
- Patterns of range use, range defense, and intergroup spacing in moustached tamarin monkeys (Saguinus mystax) (2006) (48)
- Ecological context of savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) termite fishing at Fongoli, Senegal (2008) (45)
- Intragroup Lethal Aggression in West African Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): Inferred Killing of a Former Alpha Male at Fongoli, Senegal (2017) (44)
- Uniquely Human ? A Reply to Zoon Politikon : The Evolutionary Origins of Human Political Systems (2017) (43)
- Comparing measures of travel distances in primates: Methodological considerations and socioecological implications (1999) (41)
- Primate archaeology evolves (2017) (40)
- Chimpanzees Use Tools to Harvest Social Insects at Fongoli, Senegal (2005) (37)
- Feeding ecology of savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal (2006) (37)
- Savanna Chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal, Navigate a Fire Landscape (2017) (36)
- Giving the Forest Eyes: The Benefits of Using Camera Traps to Study Unhabituated Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Southeastern Senegal (2014) (36)
- Plant-food and tool transfer among savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal (2012) (32)
- Feeding in fear? How adult male western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) adjust to predation and savanna habitat pressures. (2017) (31)
- Rank Differences in Ecological Behavior: A Comparative Study of Patas Monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and Vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) (1999) (29)
- Reconstruction of periodicity of repetitive linear enamel hypoplasia from perikymata counts on imbricational enamel among dry-adapted chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) from Fongoli, Senegal. (2012) (29)
- Termite fishing laterality in the Fongoli savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): further evidence of a left hand preference. (2012) (28)
- Nocturnal behavior by a diurnal ape, the West African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), in a savanna environment at Fongoli, Senegal. (2018) (26)
- Survey of Three Primate Species in Forest Fragments at La Suerte Biological Field Station, Costa Rica (2008) (26)
- Survey of Three Primate Species in Forest Fragments at La Suerte Field Station, Costa Rica (2002) (23)
- Seed Reingestion in Savannah Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal (2011) (22)
- A Preliminary Study of Mantled Howling Monkey (Alouatta Palliata) Ecology and Conservation on Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua (1999) (22)
- Ethical issues in African great ape field studies. (2013) (21)
- Genotyping aids field study of unhabituated wild chimpanzees (2004) (21)
- Comparing Two Manipulable Objects as Enrichment for Captive Chimpanzees (1992) (21)
- Savanna chimpanzees adjust sleeping nest architecture in response to local weather conditions. (2018) (20)
- Successful Return of a Wild Infant Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) to its Natal Group after Capture by Poachers (2010) (18)
- Targeted helping by a wild adolescent male chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus): evidence for empathy? (2011) (18)
- Ethoarchaeology and Elementary Technology of Unhabituated Wild Chimpanzees at Assirik, Senegal, West Africa (2003) (17)
- Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Density and Environmental Gradients at Their Biogeographical Range Edge (2020) (14)
- Savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) nesting ecology at Bagnomba (Kedougou, Senegal) (2018) (14)
- Use of Caves by Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Tomboronkoto Region of Southeastern Senegal (2001) (13)
- Socioecology of Adult Female Vervet Cercopithecus Aethiops and Patas Monkeys Erythrocebus Patas in Kenya: Food Availability, Feeding Competition, and Dominance Relationships (1999) (13)
- Survey of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) Outside Protected Areas in Southeastern Senegal (2018) (12)
- Planted Trees as Corridors for Primates at El Zota Biological Field Station, Costa Rica (2004) (12)
- Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and their mammalian sympatriates: Mt. Assirik, Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal (2014) (11)
- Predation on a monkey by savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal (2004) (11)
- Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) Prey on Patas Monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) at Fongoli, Senegal (2009) (11)
- Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in savanna landscapes (2021) (10)
- Informing Protection Efforts for Critically Endangered Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and Sympatric Mammals amidst Rapid Growth of Extractive Industries in Senegal (2019) (10)
- Nest-Building Behaviour by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Non-Protected Area of Diaguiri (Kedougou, Senegal): Implications for Conservation (2018) (10)
- Chimpanzees in Bandafassi Arrondissement, Southeastern Senegal: Field Surveys as a Basis for the Sustainable Community-Based Conservation (2011) (9)
- Fongoli chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) eats banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) (2008) (9)
- Stable isotope variation in savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) indicate avoidance of energetic challenges through dietary compensation at the limits of the range. (2019) (8)
- Competition Between Chimpanzees and Humans: The Effects of Harvesting Non-timber Forest Products (2016) (8)
- Studying Apes in a Human Landscape (2016) (8)
- Mothers Frequent Caves: Lactation Affects Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Cave Use in Southeastern Senegal (2020) (7)
- Rates of lethal aggression in chimpanzees depend on the number of adult males rather than measures of human disturbance (2012) (7)
- Orangutans (Pongo spp.) may prefer tools with rigid properties to flimsy tools. (2010) (7)
- New Range Record for the Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon (Cercopithecus petaurista) in Southeastern Senegal (2010) (6)
- Sex Bias and Social Influences on Savanna Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Nest Building Behavior (2020) (5)
- Identifying the Ape Beat in the Wild: Rhythmic Individual Signatures from the Sounds of Manual Fruit Cracking in Fongoli Chimpanzees (2018) (4)
- The effects of paternity on interactions between adult male and immature chimpanzees in captivity. (1995) (4)
- Update on the Assirik Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Population in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal (2012) (4)
- Highly Successful Non-Invasive Collection of DNA from Wild Chimpanzees (2000) (2)
- FROM HAND TO MOUTH: FINE PRECISION GRIP DURING MUTUAL GROOMING ELICITED WIDE LIP MOVEMENTS IN WILD FONGOLI CHIMPANZEES (2014) (2)
- The ecology of fear and savanna resource limitation in western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal (2015) (2)
- Evidence for Leaf Swallowing Behavior by Savanna Chimpanzees in Senegal - a New Site Record (2003) (2)
- Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and their mammalian sympatriates: Mt. Assirik, Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal (2014) (2)
- The most unkindest cut: genital wounding by chimpanzees (2015) (2)
- Laterality in Termite-Fishing by Fongoli Chimpanzees: Preliminary Report (2007) (1)
- Intragroup Lethal Aggression in West African Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): Inferred Killing of a Former Alpha Male at Fongoli, Senegal (2017) (1)
- THE WESTERN CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS) IN THE ANTENNA ZONE (NIOKOLO KOBA NATIONAL PARK, SENEGAL): NESTING ECOLOGY AND SYMPATRICS WITH OTHER MAMMALS (2022) (1)
- Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) access a nutritionally balanced, high energy, and abundant food, baobab (Adansonia digitata) fruit, with extractive foraging and reingestion (2021) (1)
- Constraints associated with living in a savannah-woodland environment: Seasonal stress patterns in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal (2015) (1)
- Occam’s razor revisited: guenon species morphology supports evidence for an African influence in Bronze Age Aegean fresco primate iconography from Akrotiri, Thera (2021) (1)
- Wild Chimpanzee Welfare: A Focus on Nutrition, Foraging and Health to Inform Great Ape Welfare in the Wild and in Captivity (2022) (0)
- Giving the Forest Eyes: The Benefits of Using Camera Traps to Study Unhabituated Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Southeastern Senegal (2014) (0)
- EVA Chimpanzees of the Taï National Park , Côte d ’ Ivoire : The Taï Chimpanzee Project (2019) (0)
- Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes. (2022) (0)
- Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey. Craig B. Stanford (2002) (0)
- State of knowledge on chimpanzee ecology and behavior in the unprotected zone of Diaguiri (Kédougou, Sénégal) (2018) (0)
- Seasonal variation in indicators of climatic and ecological stress in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees (2017) (0)
- MAHALE CHIMPANZEES: 50 YEARS OF RESEARCH Edited by Michio NakamuraKazuhiko HosakaNoriko ItohKoichiro Zamma Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 2015. 780 pp. ISBN 978–1-107–05231-4 (Hardcover). (2017) (0)
- Plant-food and tool transfer among savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal (2011) (0)
- Dynamics of human-chimpanzee encounters at Fongoli, Senegal, 2006-2014 (2016) (0)
- Primate archaeology evolves (2017) (0)
- Does National Park Protection influence Mammal Presence?: Comparing Chimpanzee’s Competitors, Predators, and Prey between Niokolo-Koba National Park and Fongoli Savanna Research Site in Senegal (2017) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW:Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale. (2013) (0)
- Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham, and David R. Pilbeam, eds. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017, 848 pp. $55.00, cloth. ISBN 9780674967953. (2019) (0)
- Indirect evidence of tool-assisted hunting in the Bantan chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) community in southeastern Senegal savanna-woodlands (2022) (0)
- Chimpanzees as ecosystem service providers: Seed dispersal of an economically important plant resource (2022) (0)
- Water conservation: Human water balance exceeds that of other apes (2021) (0)
- Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge by Jonathan Marks (2011) (0)
- Primate Communities. John G. Fleagle , Charles Janson , Kaye E. Reed (2001) (0)
- Savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) nesting ecology at Bagnomba (Kedougou, Senegal) (2017) (0)
- Chimpanzees in Fire-Altered Landscapes: Investigating Foundations for Hominin Fire Use (2017) (0)
- Book review: Centralizing fieldwork: Critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology (2012) (0)
- Nesting behavior of the savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in the non-protected area of Bantankiline (Kedougou, Senegal) (2022) (0)
- Savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Senegal react to deadly snakes and other reptiles: Testing the snake detection hypothesis (2022) (0)
- Social structure and change in West African savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal (2018) (0)
- Engaged Anthropology: Engaging Local Stakeholders and Decision Makers in Science and Conservation (2015) (0)
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