Please find below a list of all the references ever published about or related to Bossou and video/TV programs produced about Bossou. Enjoy!

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1) Scientific papers with first hand information on Bossou written in European language.

Albrecht H, Dunnett SC 1971 : Chimpanzees in Western Africa. Piper, Munchen.

Fushimi T, Sakura O, Matsuzawa T, Ohno H, Sugiyama Y 1991 : Nut-cracking behavior of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Bossou, Guinea, (West Africa). In -Ehara A, Kimura T, Takenaka O, Iwamoto M (eds) : Primatology Today, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 695-696.

Hirata S, Myowa M, Matsuzawa T 1998 : Use of leaves as cushions to sit on wet ground by wild chimpanzees. Am. J. Primatol. 44 : 215-220.

Hirata S, Morimura N, Matsuzawa T 1998 : Green passage plan (tree-planting project) and environmental education using documentary videos at Bossou: A progress report. Pan African News 5 : 18-20.

Holas B 1952 : Echantillon du folklore Kono (Haute-Guinee Francaise). Etudes Guineennes 9 : 3-90.

Holas B 1954 : Le culte de Zie. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 39 : 1-275.

Holas B 1975 : Contes Kono: Traditions Populaires de la Foret Guineenne. Edition G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larouse, Paris.

Humle T 1999 : New record of fishing for termites (Macrotermes) by the chimpanzees of Bossou (Pan troglodytes verus), Guinea. Pan Africa News 6 : 3-4.

Inoue-Nakamura N, Matsuzawa T 1997 : Development of stone tool use by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). J. Comparative Psychology 111 : 159-173.

Kortlandt A 1986 : The use of stone tools by wild-living chimpanzees and earliest hominids. J. Hum. Evol. 15 : 77-132

Kortlandt A 1989 : The use of stone tools by wild-living chimpanzees. In Heltne PG, Marquardt LG (eds) : Understanding Chimpanzees, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 146-147.

Kortlandt A, Holzhaus E 1987 : New data on the use of stone tools by chimpanzees in Guinea and Liberia. Primates 28 : 473-496.

Koltlandt A, van Orshoven J, Pfeijffers R, van Zon, JCJ 1981 : Chimpanzees in the wild, Guinea 1966-1967: Sixth Netherlands chimpanzee expedition. (Transcripts of film/video texts). University of Amsterdam.

Lamotte M 1942 : La faune mammalogique du Mont Nimba (Haute Guinee). Mammalia 6 :114-119.

Matsuzawa T 1991 : Nesting cups and metatools in chimpanzees. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 : 570-571.

Matsuzawa T 1994 : Field experiments on use of stone tools in the wild. In: Wrangham RW, McGrew WC, de Waal FBM, Heltone PG (eds) : Chimpanzee Cultures, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 351-370.

Matsuzawa T 1996 : Chimpanzee intelligence in nature and in captivity: Isomorphism of symbol use and tool use. In : McGrew WC, Marchant LF, Nishida T (eds) : Great Ape Societies. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 196-209.

Matsuzawa T 1997a : The death of an infant chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. Pan Africa News 4 : 4-6.

Matsuzawa T 1999 : Communication and tool use in chimpanzees: Cultural and social context. In : Hauser M, Konishi M. (eds), Neural mechanisms of communication. MIT Press, pp. 645-671.

Matsuzawa T, Sakura O, Kimura T, Hamada Y, Sugiyama Y 1990 : Case report on the death of a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus). Primates 31: 635-641.

Matsuzawa T, Yamakoshi G 1996 : Comparison of chimpanzee material culture between Bossou and Nimba, West Africa. In : Russon AE, Bard KA, Parker S (eds), Reaching into Thought: The mind of the great apes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 211-232.

Sakura O 1991 : On the concept of 'group' in primates, with special reference to fission-fusion of chimpanzees. In : Ehara A, Kimura T, Takenaka O, Iwamoto M (eds) : Primatology Today, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 247-250.

Sakura O 1994 : Factors affecting party size and composition of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou, Guinea. Int. J. Primatol. 15: 167-183.

Sakura O, Fushimi T, Matsuzawa T, Ohno H, Sugiyama Y 1991 : Social behavior of wild chimpanzees in Bossou, Guinea, West Africa. In: Ehara A, Kimura T, Takenaka O, Iwamoto M (eds) : Primatology Today, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 713-714.

Sakura O, Matsuzawa T 1991 : Flexibility of wild chimpanzee nut-cracking behavior using stone hammers and anvils: An experimental analysis. Ethology 87 : 237-248.

Sugiyama Y 1981 : Observation on the population dynamics and behavior of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea, 1979-1980. Primates 22: 435-444.

Sugiyama Y 1984 : Population dynamics of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea, between 1976-1983. Primates 25: 391-400.

Sugiyama Y 1988 : Grooming interactions among adult chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea, with special reference to social structure. Int. J. Primatol. 9 : 393-407.

Sugiyama Y 1989a : Population dynamics of chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. In Heltne PG, Marquardt LG (eds) : Understanding Chimpanzees, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 134-145.

Sugiyama Y 1989b : Description of some characteristic behaviors and discussion on their propagation process among chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea. In Sugiyama Y (ed) : Behavioral studies of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. KUPRI, Inuyama, pp. 43-47.

Sugiyama Y 1991 : Habitat isolation and population structure of wild chimpanzees in and around Bossou, West Africa. In Maruyama N, Bobek B, Ono Y, Regelin W, Bartos L, Ratcliffe PR (eds) : Wildlife Conservation: Present Trends and Perspectives for the 21th Century. Japan Wildlife Research Center, Tokyo, pp. 32-35.

Sugiyama Y 1994a : Research at Bossou. Pan Africa News 1 : 2-3.

Sugiyama Y 1994b : Tool use by wild chimpanzees. Nature 367 : 327.

Sugiyama Y 1994c : Age-specific birth rate and lifetime reproductive success of chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. Am. J. Primatol. 32 : 311-318.

Sugiyama Y 1995a : Tool-use for catching ants by chimpanzees at Bossou and Monts Nimba, West Africa. Primates 36 : 193-205.

Sugiyama Y 1995b : Drinking tools of wild chimpanzees at Bossou. Am. J. Primatol. 37 : 263-269.

Sugiyama Y 1999 : Socioecological factors of male chimpanzee migration at Bossou, Guinea. Primates 40 : 61-68.

Sugiyama Y, Fushimi T, Sakura O, Matsuzawa T 1993 : Hand preference and tool use in wild chimpanzees. Primates 34 : 151-159.

Sugiyama Y, Kawamoto S, Takenaka O, Kumazaki K, Miwa N 1993 : Paternity discrimination and inter-group relationships of chimpanzees at Bossou. Primates 34 : 545-552.

Sugiyama Y, Koman J 1979a : Social structure and dynamics of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. Primates 20 : 323-339.

Sugiyama Y, Koman J 1979b : Tool-using and making behavior in wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. Primates 20 : 513-524.

Sugiyama Y, Koman J 1987 : A preliminary list of chimpanzees' alimentation at Bossou, Guinea. Primates 28 : 133-147.

Sugiyama Y, Koman J 1992 : The flora of Bossou: It's utilization by list of chimpanzees and humans. African Study Monographs 13 : 127-169.

Sugiyama Y, Koman J, Sow MB 1988 : Ant-catching wands of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. Folia Primatol. 51 : 56-60.
van Zon JCJ, van Orshoven J 1967 : Enkele resultaten van de Zesde Nederlandse Chimpansee-Expeditie. Vakblad voor Biologen 47 : 161-166.

Yamakoshi G 1998 : Dietary responses to fruit scarcity of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: Possible implications for ecological importance of tool use. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 106 : 283-295.

Yamakoshi G, Sugiyama Y 1995 : Pestle-pounding behavior of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea : A newly observed tool-using behavior. Primates 36 : 489-500.

2) Scientific papers with second hand analysis about Bossou written in European language.

Derrick R 1994 : Culture in a nutshell: Chimp gives lessons in learning. BBC Wildlife Magagine 12(2) : 10.

Huffman, M.A. et al. 1998 : African great ape self-medication: A new paradigm for treating parasite disease with natural medicines. In Ebizuka Y (ed) : Towards Natural Medicine Research in the 21st Century, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. (in press).

Matsuzawa T 1997b : Phylogeny of intelligence: A view from cognitive behavior of chimpanzees. IIAS Reports, No. 1997-004, pp.17-26.

Matsuzawa T 1998 : Chimpanzee behavior: A comparative cognitive perspective. In Greenberg G, Haraway M (eds) : Comparative Psychology: A Handbook. Garland Publishing, pp. 360-375.

Matsuzawa T 1999 : Primate foundation of human intelligence: A view from manipulation and tool use in nonhuman primates. In Nowell A (ed) : Archaeology of Mind. Cambridge Univ. Press, (in press).

Muroyama Y, Sugiyama Y 1994 : Grooming relationships in two species of chimpanzees. In Wrangham RW, McGrew WC, de Waal FBM, Heltone PG (eds) : Chimpanzee Cultures, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 169-180.

Vogel G 1999 : Chimps in the wild show stirrings of culture. Science 284 : 2070-2073.

Sakho D 1997 : Elaboration d'un plan d'amenagement pastoral dans la Reserve de Biosphere des Monts Nimba. Online. http://www.unesco.org/mab/capacity/mys/95/sakho/sakho. Accessed 21 July 1999.

Sakura O 1995 : What is this thing called "group of animals"? A proposal of the pluralistic terminology implicated from non-human primate ecology. The Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 8 : 237-252.

Sugiyama Y 1993 : Local variation of tools and tool use among wild chimpanzee populations. In Berthelet A, Chavaillon J (eds) : The Use of Tools by Human and Non-human Primates, Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp.175-187.

Sugiyama Y 1997 : Social tradition and the use of tool-composites by wild chimpanzees. Evol. Anthropol. 6 : 23-27.

Sugiyama Y, Soumah AG 1988 : Preliminary survey of the distribution and population of chimpanzees in the Republic of Guinea. Primates 29 : 569-574.

Whiten A, Goodall J, McGrew WC, Nishida T, Reynolds V, Sugiyama Y, Tutin CEG, Wrangham RW, Boesch C 1999 : Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature 399 : 682-685.

3. Visual works, TV programs about Bossou in European language.

Koltlandt A, van Orshoven J, Pfeijffers R, van Zon JCJ 1981 : Chimpanzees in the wild, Guinea 1966-1967: Sixth Netherlands chimpanzee expedition. (16mm film, sound) University of Amsterdam.

Matsuzawa T 1998 : A hard nut to crack: Tool use of wild chimpanzees at Bossou. ANC/NHK (43min.).

Matsuzawa T 1998 : Une noix difficile a concasser: L'usage d'outils chez chimpanzes sauvages de Bossou. ANC/NHK (43min.)