Photos

Selfie with Japanese chimpanzee celebrity Ai at KUPRI © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Tetsuro Matsuzawa and his partner Ai © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Ai grooming Matsuzawa © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Ai painting © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chloé and Cleo doing cognitive experiments at touch screens © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Ayumu working at touch screen © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Touch screen work © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Object-categorization task © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Ai playing the piano, Ayumu listening © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

The leisure of fully automated experiments © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

The new WISH cage © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Matsuzawa inspecting the WISH cage © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Ai inspecting the WISH cage © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Kumamoto Sanctuary © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

“Participant observation” at Kumamoto: Satoshi Hirata and Naruki Morimura with a chimpanzee mother and her child © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Playtime © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Movie time © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee management consultant Mike Seres being attacked by not so hippyish bonobos © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

weet-potato washing: A monument to the “preculture” of the Koshima macaques © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Provisioning of Koshima macaques with wheat © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Alpha male trying to steal the wheat © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Field experiment on Koshima Island © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Field experiment on Koshima Island © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Mother and infant © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Bossou, Guinea: The Sacred Mont Gban © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzees are the totem animal of the Manon at Bossou and cannot be killed © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee stealing papaya in front of the sous-préfet’s house © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Road crossing in an anthropogenic environment © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Fanwa raiding a Bossou farmer’s maniok field © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Manon field assistants following alpha male Jeje on Mont Gban © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Naruki Morimura following chimpanzees through thick undergrowth © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Outdoor Laboratory Le Salon © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Field experiment: Fanwa learns from his mother how to crack oil-palm nuts © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Refilling an artificial waterhole in the outdoor lab © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Drinking from the hole with leaf sponges © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

Reforestation of the savannah between Bossou und Nimba © 2015 by Nicolas Langlitz

New Year 2016 with Tetsuro Matsuzawa and field assistants on Mount Nimba © 2016 by Nicolas Langlitz

Christophe Boesch examines a dead chimpanzee on the way to Ouzouga Camp in Loango National Park, Gabon © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Ouzouga Camp © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Looking for a binga-binga bee hive © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Camera trap to film chimpanzees as they use tools to raid the bee hive © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee tool, modified to extract more honey from the bee hive © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Field assistants wearing masks to protect chimpanzees against human respiratory viruses © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Mother playing with her child © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Mother with newborn baby © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzees hunting red colobus monkeys © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Red colobus monkeys © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzees found a bee hive in a fallen tree © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Honey comb © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Infant chimpanzee learning to crack nuts © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Adult human learning to crack nuts © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Wooden hammer and anvil © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

North Camp, Taï Research Project, Ivory Coast © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Field laboratory at North Camp © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Processing chimp poop © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Fecal sample © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Field assistant taking urine sample of a chimpanzee © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Urine sample © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Traces of poaching © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Primatologist observing mangabey © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Grooming © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Mangabey baby © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Syphilis infection © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Dead mangabey, which the chimpanzees found in the forest © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

The veterinarian dissects the mangabey late at night © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Many samples have been taken to test for anthrax and ebola © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Jungle lab © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

South Camp: this house was built by the Disney film team as they shot the movie Chimpanzee © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Anthropologist taking field notes © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Evolutionary anthropology meets Christian faith © 2014 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chilly archive for chimpanzee material culture at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig © 2013 by Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee tools in the archive © 2013 by Nicolas Langlitz

Psychological experiment with chimpanzee at Leipzig zoo © 2013 by Nicolas Langlitz

Laboratory at Leipzig zoo © 2013 by Nicolas Langlitz

The Chimpanzee Culture Controversy

This ongoing fieldwork project examines the practices of primatological fieldwork. For this purpose, I visited the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) in Leipzig, two of its field sites in Gabon and Ivory Coast, as well as Kyoto University Primate Research Institute in Inuyama (KUPRI) and its outdoor laboratory in Guinea.