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 E-Mail IMAGE: Chimpanzee dung samples were collected across Africa to determine if populations were recently connected despite historical barriers to gene flow. view more  Credit: © PanAf Researchers from the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) and a team of international researchers, collected over 5000 fecal samples from 55 sites in 18 countries across the chimpanzee range over 8 years. This is by far the most complete sampling of the species to date, with a known location of origin for every sample, thus addressing the sampling limitations of previous studies. Collecting these samples was often a daunting task for our amazing field teams. The chimpanzees were almost all unhabituated to human presence, so it took a lot of patience, skill and luck to find chimpanzee dung at each of the sites, explains Mimi Arandjelovic, co-director of the PanAf and senior author of the study.

Paolo grattonJackd lesterHjalmar kuehlChristophe boeschMimi arandjelovicJack lesterWild chimpanzee foundationMax planck institute for evolutionary anthropologyPan african programmeCommunications biologyGerman centre for integrative biodiversity researchCultured chimpanzeeMax planck instituteEvolutionary anthropologyGerman centreIntegrative biodiversity research