Bulindi Chimpanzee

1 Introduction Remote monitoring techniques, such as motion-triggered camera trapping and passive acoustic recording, are increasingly employed to study animal behaviour in the wild (Caravaggi et al. 2017; Oestreich et al. 2024). Such methods are particularly important in the face of ongoing environmental change, as they enable research on wide spatial scales and are minimally invasive.

AIC Akaike Information Criteria ANOVA Analysis of Variance BCCP Bulindi Chimpanzee and Community Project BORIS Behavioral Observation Research Interactive Software GLMM Generalized Linear Mixed Model 1 Introduction Human impact on the environment and the stability of ecosystems continues to expand through activities including logging, mining, farming and infrastructure development.

Monitoring health in wild great apes is integral to their conservation and is especially important where they share habitats with humans, given the potential for zoonotic pathogen exchange. We studied the intestinal parasites of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) inhabiting degraded forest fragments amid farmland and villages in Bulindi, Uganda. We first identified protozoan and helminth parasites infecting this population.