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The Bulindi Chimpanzee and Community Project (BCCP) has its origins in anthropological research into the chimpanzee–human interface by Dr Matt McLennan and colleagues, including a long-term study of the chimpanzees of Bulindi, which began in 2006.  Research by Dr Matt and BCCP-affiliated colleagues and students has generated a series of scientific articles exploring chimpanzee behaviour and human–chimpanzee interactions in Bulindi and elsewhere in the region.  


Below is a list of published articles about the chimpanzees of Bulindi, as well as articles concerning the broader population of ‘village chimpanzees’ in nearby areas. Some of these articles are free to download from the publisher’s website; others are subscription-only. If you’re unable to access an article, please visit Dr Matt McLennan's ResearchGate page or contact us, and we’ll gladly send you a PDF version.

 
Running the risk: road-crossing behavior in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an anthropogenic habitat in Uganda.
Tellier, M., Druelle, F., Cibot, M., Baruzaliire, J., Sabiiti, T., & McLennan, M. R. (2025).
American Journal of Primatology, 87(2), e70000. READ NOW
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Pediatric respiratory pathogens circulate in children and adults in communities near susceptible wild great ape populations in Uganda.
Tusiime, P., Weary, T., Pappas, T., Tuhaise, S., Akankwasa, J.W., Sempebwa, D., Otali, E., Asiimwe, C., McLennan, M.R., Kalema-Zikusoka, G., Ross, E., Gern, J., & Goldberg, T. (2024). Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2024(1), 1771163. READ NOW
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Future coexistence with great apes will require major changes to policy and practice.
Mitani, J. C., Abwe, E., Campbell, G., Giles-Vernick, T., Goldberg, T., McLennan, M. R., Preuschoft, S., Supriatna, J., & Marshall, A. J. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(April 2024), 632-643. READ NOW
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Primate conservation in shared landscapes.
Bersacola, E., Hockings, K. J., Harrison, M. E., Imron, M. A., Bessa, J., Ramon, M., de Barros, A. R., Jaló, M., Sanhá, A., Ruiz-Miranda, C. R., Ferraz, L. P., Talebi, M. & McLennan, M. R. (2023). In: T. McKinney, S. Waters, M. A. Rodrigues (eds) Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes (pp. 161-181). Springer, Cham. READ NOW
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Infectious diseases in primates in human-impacted landscapes.
Ramon, M., McLennan, M. R., Ruiz-Miranda, C. R., Kalema-Zikusoka, G., Bessa, J., Bersacola, E., Sanhá, A., Jaló, M., de Barros, A. R., Leendertz, F. H. & Hockings, K. J. (2023). In: T. McKinney, S. Waters, M. A. Rodrigues (eds) Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes (pp. 139-160). Springer, Cham. READ NOW
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Narratives of positionality in primatology: foreign/range–country collaborator perspectives from Africa and South America.
Rodrigues, M.A., Kiiza, V., McLennan, M.R., Mendes, S.L., & Strier, K.B. (2022). International Journal of Primatology, 43(6), 1133-1158. READ NOW
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The primate gut mycobiome-bacteriome interface is impacted by environmental and subsistence factors.

Sharma, A.K., Davison, S., Pafco, B., Clayton, J.B., Rothman, J.M., McLennan, M.R., Cibot, M., Fuh, T., Vodicka, R., Robinson, C.J., & Petrzelkova, K. (2022). npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 8(1), 12. 

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Sex-specific responses to anthropogenic risk shape wild chimpanzee social networks in a human-Impacted landscape.
Satsias, Z.M., Silk, M.J., Hockings, K.J., Cibot, M., Rohen, J., & McLennan, M.R. (2022). Animal Behaviour, 186, 29–40. READ NOW
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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) adapt their nesting behavior after large-scale forest clearance and community decline.
van Dijk, K., Cibot, M. & McLennan, M.R. (2021). American Journal of Primatology, 83(10), e23323. READ NOW
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Use of a novel human object as a masturbatory tool by a wild male chimpanzee at Bulindi, Uganda.
McLennan, M.R. & van Dijk, K. (2021). Pan Africa News, 28(1), 8–11. READ NOW
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Sparse evidence for Giardia intestinalis, Cryptosporidium spp. and Microsporidia infections in humans, domesticated animals, and wild nonhuman primates sharing a farm–forest mosaic landscape in western Uganda.

Cibot, M., McLennan, M.R., Kváč, M., Sak, B., Asiimwe, C., & Petrželková K.J. (2021). Pathogens, 10(8), 933. 

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Notes on morphology and life history of Probstmayria gombensis (Nematoda: Cosmocercoidea: Atractidae), parasitic in eastern chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, in Bulindi, Uganda.
Hasegawa, H., McLennan, M.R., Huffman, M.A., & Matsuura, K. (2021). Journal of Parasitology, 107 (2), 155–162. READ NOW
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Surviving at the extreme: chimpanzee ranging is not restricted in a deforested human-dominated landscape in Uganda.
McLennan, M.R., Hintz, B., Kiiza, V., Rohen, J., Lorenti, G.A., & Hockings, K.J. (2021). African Journal of Ecology, 59(1), 17–28. READ NOW
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Atypically high reproductive skew in a small wild chimpanzee community in a human-dominated landscape.
McCarthy, M.S., Lester, J.D., Cibot, M., Vigilant, L., & McLennan, M.R. (2020). Folia Primatologica, 91(6), 688–696 READ NOW
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Forest fragments become farmland: dietary response of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to fast‐changing anthropogenic landscapes.
McLennan, M. R., Lorenti, G. A., Sabiiti, T., & Bardi, M. (2020). American Journal of Primatology, 82(4), e23090. READ NOW
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‘Customary’ use of stick tools by chimpanzees in Bulindi, Uganda: update and analysis of digging techniques from behavioural observations.
McLennan, M.R., Rohen, J., Satsias, Z., Sabiiti, T., Baruzaliire, J.-M., & Cibot, M. (2019).  Revue de Primatologie, 10. READ NOW
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Digging for clues: stick tools used for honey digging in a second community of ‘forest fragment chimpanzees’ outside the Budongo and Bugoma Forests, Uganda.
McLennan, M.R., Lorenti, G.A., Mugenyi, S., Muganzi, J., & Rohen, J. (2019). Revue de Primatologie, 10. READ NOW
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Death of a trapped chimpanzee: survival and conservation of great apes in unprotected agricultural areas of Uganda.
Cibot, M., Le Roux, S., Rohen, J., & McLennan, M.R. (2019). African Primates, 13, 47–56. READ NOW
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