Pan Africa News Vol.1, No.1

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Suehisa Kuroda, Tomoaki Nishihara and Yuji Takenoshita are now planning a short trip to the Central African Republic. Ndoki camp in the Congo, which borders on the C.A.R., remains inaccessible to researchers; in the meantime they intend to carry out an ecological survey of sympatric populations of chimpanzees and lowland gorillas in Dzanga-Sangha National Park. There they hope to gain insight into some of the ecological factors which may cause regional differences in ape populations, such as those observed at Ndoki. Kuroda says that his team is committed to continuing work in Congo as soon as the political situation improves, and also anticipates the future reopening of the bonobo study camp at Wamba in Zaire. The team of researchers will leave Japan on March 5, 1994, with an expected return by mid-April to early May.

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Call for West African chimpanzee hair samples:
H. Boesch-Achermann & Ch. Boesch would gratefully accept contributions of West African wild chimpanzee hair samples. The samples will be analysed by P. Gagneux in D. Woodruff's lab at the University of California, San Diego (U.S.A.). For more info contact: H. Boesch-Achermann & C. Boesch, Institute of Zoology, University of Basel, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel, SWITZERLAND.

Research opportunities:
(1) Assistants needed for habituation of chimpanzees in TaiqdNP, Ivory Coast. Seeking students who would like a one-year experience working in tropical rainforest. Contact H. Boesch-Achermann & Ch. Boesch for further information (see above).
(2) Assistants needed for planned studies of crowned eagle and leopard populations in TaiqdNP, Ivory Coast. Motivated students who would welcome the challenge of this difficult task, please contact H. Boesch-Achermann & Ch. Boesch (see above).

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