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ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022

Wild Chimpanzee Welfare: A Focus on Nutrition, Foraging and Health to Inform Great Ape Welfare in the Wild and in Captivity.

Katie F Gerstner, Jill D Pruetz

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Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Distribution and prevalence ofJournal of medical microbiology · 2025
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  2. Behavioral Welfare Research for the Management of Sanctuary Chimpanzees (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Katie F GerstnerDepartment of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.
Jill D PruetzDepartment of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9151-8571

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adequate nutrition is essential for individual well-being, survival and reproductive fitness. Yet, in wild animals, including great apes, scoring nutrition or health comes with many challenges. Here, we have two aims: first, broadly review the scientific literature regarding nutritional data on wild chimpanzee foods to get a better understanding what nutrients foods comprise of, and second, highlight important findings on wild chimpanzee nutrition and welfare pertaining to diet. We discuss variation in macro and micronutrients in food items consumed and their role in chimpanzee health across chimpanzee subspecies from multiple study sites. We found a lack of information pertaining to nutritional consumption rates of daily diets. Second, we call for a fresh, in-depth discussion on wild chimpanzee welfare issues is of foremost importance to inform conservation projects and particularly settings where humans and chimpanzees may interact, because such conversation can reveal how specific or general welfare measures can (a) inform our knowledge of an individual's, group's, and population's welfare, (b) provide additional measures from the study of wild chimpanzee ecology that can guide the welfare of captive chimpanzees, and (c) can enable comparative study of welfare across wild populations. A summary of the current literature on approaches to measuring wild chimpanzee health and welfare status, to our knowledge, has yet to be done.

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animal welfarebody compositionchimpanzeesmacronutrientsnutritional ecologywelfare assessments

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PMID36496890
PMCPMC9735707

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