Emmanuel Danquah

TL;DR: It is shown that chimpanzees exhibit greater behavioural diversity in environments with more variability — in both recent and historical timescales, suggesting that environmental variability was a critical evolutionary force promoting the behavioural, as well as cultural diversification of great apes.

TL;DR: The PREDICTS project as discussed by the authors provides a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use.

TL;DR: The results support the view that “culturally significant units” should be integrated into wildlife conservation and show that chimpanzees inhabiting areas with high human impact have a mean probability of occurrence reduced by 88%, across all behaviors, compared to low-impact areas.

TL;DR: The rate of population change for the western chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus, over a 24‐year period is assessed and a plea for greater commitment to conservation in West Africa across sectors is made.

TL;DR: The authors' results establish that the thick-tailed pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is sister-species of the Sunda and Palawan pangolins, and propose the subfamily Phatagininae subfam.