Publications of Christophe Boesch

Girard-Buttoz, C.; Surbeck, M.; Samuni, L.; Boesch, C.; Fruth, B.; Crockford, C.; Hohmann, G.; Wittig, R. M.: Variable use of polyadic grooming and its effect on access to social partners in wild chimpanzees and bonobos. Animal Behavior 168, pp. 211 - 224 (2020)

Girard-Buttoz, C.; Surbeck, M.; Samuni, L.; Tkaczynski, P. J.; Boesch, C.; Fruth, B.; Wittig, R. M.; Hohmann, G.; Crockford, C.: Information transfer efficiency differs in wild chimpanzees and bonobos, but not social cognition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1929), 20200877 (2020)

Jang, H.; Boesch, C.; Mundry, R.; Ban, S. D.; Janmaat, K. R. L.: Travel linearity and speed of human foragers and chimpanzees during their daily search for food in tropical rainforests. Scientific Reports 9, 11066 (2019)

Jang, H.; Boesch, C.; Mundry, R.; Kandza, V.; Janmaat, K.: Sun, age and test location affect spatial orientation in human foragers in rainforests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1907), 20190934 (2019)

Kalan, A. K.; Hohmann, G.; Arandjelovic, M.; Boesch, C.; McCarthy, M.; Agbor, A.; Angedakin, S.; Bailey, E.; Wilungula Balongelwa, C.; Bessone, M. et al.; Bocksberger, G.; Coxe, S. J.; Deschner, T.; Despres-Einspenner, M.-L.; Dieguez, P.; Fruth, B.; Herbinger, I.; Granjon, A.-C.; Head, J. S.; Kablan, Y. A.; Langergraber, K. E.; Lotana Lokasola, A.; Maretti, G.; Marrocoli, S.; Mbende, M.; Moustgaard, .; N’Goran, P. K.; Robbins, M. M.; van Schijndel, J.; Sommer, V.; Surbeck, M.; Tagg , N.; Willie, J.; Wittig, R. M.; Kühl, H. S.: Novelty response of wild African apes to camera traps. Current Biology 29 (7), pp. 1211 - 1217 (2019)

Surbeck, M.; Boesch, C.; Crockford, C.; Thompson, M. E.; Furuichi, T.; Fruth, B.; Hohmann, G.; Ishizuka, S.; Machanda, Z.; Muller, M. N. et al.; Pusey, A.; Sakamaki, T.; Tokuyama, N.; Walker, K.; Wrangham, R.; Wroblewski, E.; Zuberbühler, K.; Vigilant, L.; Langergraber, K.: Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees. Current Biology 29 (10), pp. R354 - R355 (2019)

Surbeck, M.; Girard-Buttoz, C.; Boesch, C.; Crockford, C.; Fruth, B.; Hohmann, G.; Langergraber, K.; Zuberbühler, K.; Wittig, R. M.; Mundry, R.: Sex-specific association patterns in bonobos and chimpanzees reflect species differences in cooperation. Royal Society Open Science 4, 161081 (2017)

Ban, S. D.; Boesch, C.; N'Guessan, A.; N'Goran, E. K.; Tako, A.; Janmaat, K. R. L.: Taï chimpanzees change their travel direction for rare feeding trees providing fatty fruits. Animal Behaviour 118, pp. 135 - 147 (2016)

Janmaat, K.; Boesch, C.; Byrne, R.; Chapman, C.; Goné Bi, Z. B.; Head, J. S.; Robbins, M. M.; Wrangham, R.; Polansky, L.: The spatio-temporal complexity of chimpanzee food: How cognitive adaptations can counteract the ephemeral nature of ripe fruit. American Journal of Primatology 78 (6), pp. 626 - 645 (2016)

Kühl, H. S.; Kalan, A. K.; Arandjelovic, M.; Aubert, F.; D'Auvergne, L.; Goedmakers, A.; Jones, S.; Kehoe, L.; Regnaut, S.; Tickle, A. et al.; Ton, E.; van Schijndel, J.; Abwe, E. E.; Angedakin, S.; Agbor, A.; Ayimisin, E. A.; Bailey, E.; Bessone, M.; Bonnet, M.; Brazolla, G.; Ebua Buh, V.; Chancellor, R.; Cipoletta, C.; Cohen, H.; Corogenes, K.; Coupland, C.; Curran, B.; Deschner, T.; Dierks, K.; Dieguez, P.; Dilambaka, E.; Diotoh, O.; Dowd, D.; Dunn, A.; Eshuis, H.; Fernandez, R.; Ginath, Y.; Hart, J.; Hedwig, D.; Ter Heegde, M.; Hicks, T. C.; Imong, I. S.; Jeffery, K. J.; Junker, J.; Kadam, P.; Kambi, M.; Kienast, I.; Kujirakwinja, D.; Langergraber, K. E.; Lapeyre, V.; Lapuente, J.; Lee, K.; Leinert, V.; Meier, A.; Maretti, G.; Marrocoli, S.; Mbi, T. J.; Mihindou, V.; Möbius, Y. B.; Morgan, D.; Morgan, B.; Mulindahabi, F.; Murai, M.; Niyigabae, P.; Normand, E.; Ntare, N.; Orsmby, L. J.; Piel, A.; Pruetz, J.; Rundus, A.; Sanz, C.; Sommer, V.; Stewart, F.; Tagg, N.; Vanleeuwe, H.; Vergnes, V.; Willie, J.; Wittig, R. M.; Zuberbuehler, K.; Boesch, C.: Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing. Scientific Reports 6, 22219 (2016)

Madinda, N. F.; Ehlers, B.; Wertheim, J. O.; Akoua-Koffi, C.; Bergl, R. A.; Boesch, C.; Akonkwa, D. B. M.; Eckardt, W.; Fruth, B.; Gillespie, T. R. et al.; Gray, M.; Hohmann, G.; Karhemere, S.; Kujirakwinja, D.; Langergraber, K. E.; Muyembe, J.-J.; Nishuli, R.; Pauly, M.; Petrzelkova, K. J.; Robbins, M. M.; Todd, A.; Schubert, G.; Stoinski, T. S.; Wittig, R. M.; Zuberbühler, K.; Peeters, M.; Leendertz, F. H.; Calvignac-Spencer, S.: Assessing host-virus codivergence for close relatives of merkel cell polyomavirus infecting african great apes. Journal of Virology 90 (19), pp. 8531 - 8541 (2016)

Hoppe, E.; Pauly, M.; Gillespie, T. R.; Akoua-Koffi, C.; Hohmann, G.; Fruth, B.; Karhemere, S.; Madinda, N. F.; Mugisha, L.; Muyembe, J.-J. et al.; Todd, A.; Petrzelkova, K. J.; Gray, M.; Robbins, M. M.; Bergl, R. A.; Wittig, R. M.; Zuberbühler, K.; Boesch, C.; Schubert, G.; Leendertz, F. H.; Ehlers, B.; Calvignac-Spencer, S.: Multiple cross-species transmission events of human adenoviruses (HAdV) during hominine evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 (8), pp. 2072 - 2084 (2015)

Ban, S. D.; Boesch, C.; Janmaat, K.: Taï chimpanzees anticipate revisiting high-valued fruit trees from further distances. Animal Cognition 17 (6), pp. 1353 - 1364 (2014)

Janmaat, K.; Polansky, L.; Ban, S. D.; Boesch, C.: Wild chimpanzees plan their breakfast time, type, and location. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (46), pp. 16343 - 16348 (2014)

Wilson, M. L.; Boesch, C.; Fruth, B.; Furuichi, T.; Gilby, I. C.; Hashimoto, C.; Hobaiter, C. L.; Hohmann, G.; Itoh, N.; Koops, K. et al.; Lloyd, J. N.; Matsuzawa, T.; Mitani, J. C.; Mjungu, D. C.; Morgan, D.; Muller, M. N.; Mundry, R.; Nakamura, M.; Pruetz, J.; Pusey, A. E.; Riedel, J.; Sanz, C.; Schel, A. M.; Simmons, N.; Waller, M.; Watts, D. P.; White, F.; Wittig, R. M.; Zuberbühler, K.; Wrangham, R. W.: Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts. Nature 513 (7518), pp. 414 - 417 (2014)

Janmaat, K. R. L.; Ban, S. D.; Boesch, C.: Taï chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruit: What we can learn from their mistakes. Animal Cognition 16 (6), pp. 851 - 860 (2013)

Janmaat, K.; Ban, S. D.; Boesch, C.: Chimpanzees use long-term spatial memory to monitor large fruit trees and remember feeding experiences across seasons. Animal Behaviour 86 (6), pp. 1183 - 1205 (2013)

Gagneux, P.; Wills, C.; Gerloff, U.; Tautz, D.; Morin, P. A.; Boesch, C.; Fruth, B.; Hohmann, G.; Ryder, O. A.; Woodruff, D.: Mitochondrial sequences show diverse evolutionary histories of African hominids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96 (9), pp. 5077 - 5082 (1999)

Porter, L. M.; Garber, P.; Boesch, C.; Janmaat, K.: Finding fruit in a tropical rainforest: A comparison of the foraging patterns of two distinct fruit-eating primates across years. In: Spatial analysis in field primatology: Applying GIS at varying scales (Eds. Dolins, F. L.; Shaffer, C. A.; Porter, L. M.; Hickey, J. R.; Nibbelink, N. P.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge (2020)

Girard-Buttoz, C.; Surbeck, M.; Samuni, L.; Tkaczynski, P. J.; Boesch, C.; Fruth, B.; Wittig, R. M.; Hohmann, G.; Crockford, C.: Chimpanzees outperform bonobos at an experimental cooperative task in the wild: Information transfer around a stationary danger. In Folia Primatologica, 91 (3), pp. 255 - 256. 8th European Federation for Primatology Meeting and 2019 Primate Society of Great Britain Winter Meeting (EFP-PSGB) : Our Primate Heritage, Our Primate Legacy, Oxford, UK, September 08, 2019 - September 11, 2019. Karger, Basel (2020)

Janmaat, K.; Ban, S.; Boesch, C.: Do Tai chimpanzees use botanical knowledge in their search for fruit in large scale space. In Cognitive Processing, 13 (Suppl. 1), p. S17. Pabst Science, Lengerich (2012)