Goodall and Gombe

Edwin Goodall; Owen Berkeley-Hill

Phenotypic quality influences fertility in Gombe chimpanzees.

1. Fertility is an important fitness component, but is difficult to measure in slowly reproducing, long-lived animals such as chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). 2. We measured fertility and the effect of measured covariates on fertility in a 43-year sample of birth intervals of chimpanzees from the Gombe National Park, Tanzania using Cox proportional hazards regression with individual-level random ...

Causes of stillbirth in a community survey in Gombe State

Background: Perinatal mortality rate is very high in North Eastern Nigeria mainly due to a large number of still births. The causes and factors related need to be identified so as to proffer solutions with a view to improving obstetric practice and perinatal survival. Objectives: To identify the causes and factors related to stillbirths in Dukku Local Government Area of Gombe state. Methodology...

Personality in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park

Researchers increasingly view animal personality traits as products of natural selection. We present data that describe the personalities of 128 eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) currently living in or who lived their lives in the Kasekela and Mitumba communities of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. We obtained ratings on 24 items from an established, reliable, well-validated qu...

The virtues of the cortex in 1680: a letter from Charles Goodall to Mr. H.

CHARLES GOODALL (1642-1712) devoted his career to the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians of London and became its most articulate defender against attacks of seventeenth-century empirics and chemists.' In his The College of Physicians vindicated ...2 of 1676 he assailed the apothecary-empirics, particularly Adrian Huyberts for misrepresenting College licensing policies and the achieveme...