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The Taï Chimpanzee Project (TCP) is a long-term research project established in 1979 by the late Christophe Boesch and is dedicated to research on and conservation of the chimpanzees of the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. In addition to protecting the long-term future of the Taï chimpanzee population, data from TCP has produced a large number of research publications on behavior, cognition, cooperation, culture, communication and life history of the chimpanzees. Specimens in this collection are curated by the Department of Human Origins at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.
If you are interested in focusing your research on Tai chimpanzees (rather than using them only in a comparative context) your project will likely benefit from the auxiliary information that the TCP project has on these individuals going back over 40 years (https://www.taichimpproject.org/). There may also be opportunities to collaborate with researchers who are Côte d'Ivoire nationals that the TCP is keen to support through this initiative. If you are interested in scientific collaborations with members of the TCP research group please contact them at: taichimpanzeeproject@gmail.com.
The license fees charged by the TCP go directly to the protection of the chimpanzees of the Taï National Park and the continuation of the long-term data collection.
If you would like apply for access to the TCP microCT collection please complete the application form below and email to BOTH taichimpanzeeproject@gmail.com AND origins_datarequest@eva.mpg.de.
A spreadsheet with additional information about the Tai chimpanzee individuals can be downloaded below. It contains information such as sex, age, name, and all the anatomical elements for which micro-CT datasets sets can be currently requested. The list will be updated as additional anatomical elements become available on HFR in the future.
Terms of use: the copyright for all digital representations of fossils is held by the Department of Human Origins (MPI-EVA) and The Taï Chimpanzee Project and they are made available here under an Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Credit for use of these digital representations should be as follows: Image courtesy of the Taï Chimpanzee Project, Department of Human Origins at MPI-EVA, and human-fossil-record.org.
