Mitumba Chimpanzee Community

The Mitumba Chimpanzee Community is a community inhabited by wild eastern chimpanzees that lives in a 10 kilometre square area of the Gombe Stream National Park which is situated near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.[1] This community borders the well known Kasakela community of chimpanzees. The Mitumba community became well known following the immigration of a female chimpanzee in 1996 from the Kasakela community known as Flossi, who was the first female chimpanzee in her family to leave her mother's natal group. In 2010 the community number 25 individuals.[2] Mitumba males have occasionally been killed by males of the Kasakala community.[3]

F-family

This family group originates from the Kasakela community which was part of the pioneering study by primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, however the family line continues with Flossi's immigration into the Mitumba community in 1996.[4] Her younger sister Flirt later immigrated to the Mitumba community in 2013.[4]

Flossi

Flossi (born 1985) was born in the Kasakela community and is Fifi's second oldest daughter. Flossi has given birth to four offspring, the males Forest (1997–), Fansi (2001–) and females Flower(2005-), and a new infant born 2009. She is one of the top-two ranking females in the community.[2]

Edgar

Edgar(born 1989) Edgar was together with Rudi and former alpha male Vincent the only male to survive the 2004 epidimic. Edgar and Rudi then togehter killed Vincent. Then Edgar and Rudi jocked with each other for power with Edgar winning in early 2005. Since then Edgar has been the unambigious alpha male of the mitumba community. Granted it isn"s difficult with just one other male as rival. He had a younger brother named Eboney who was more than likey killed by Rudi during their struggle for alpha status. He also has a younger sister named Eden.

References

  1. ↑ Stanford, C. B. (1998). Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674116672.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Goodall, J. (2010). Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780547488387.
  3. ↑ Lawrence, M.L. (July 10, 2014). "Mitumba". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shah, A. & Rogers, F. (2014). Tales from Gombe. Firefly. pp. 319–320. ISBN 9781770854680.