Part 1: Introduction
1 Bossou: 33 Years

Part 2: History and Ecology
2 Location and Ecology
3 The Demography and Reproductive Parameters of Bossou Chimpanzees
4 The "Prehistory" Before 1976: Looking Back on Three Decades of Research on Bossou Chimpanzees
5 The Chimpanzees of West Africa: From "Man-Like Beast" to "Our Endangered Cousin"

Part 3: Culture: Tool manufacture and use
6 The Tool Repertoire of Bossou Chimpanzees
7 Stone Tools for Nut-Cracking
8 Use of Leaves for Drinking Water
9 Ant-Dipping: How Ants have Shed Light on Culture
10 Pestle-Pounding Behavior: The Key to the Coexistence of Humans and Chimpanzees
11 Algae Scooping Remains a Puzzle
12 Ant Fishing in Trees: Invention and Modification of a New Tool-Use Behavior
13 Log Doll: Pretence in Wild Chimpanzees
14 Animal Toying

Part 4: Stone tool use: Observation and experiments
15 Extensive Surveys of Chimpanzee Stone Tools: From the Telescope to the Magnifying Glass
16 Field Experiments of Tool-Use
17 Clues to Culture? The Coula- and Panda-Nut Experiments
18 From Handling Stones and Nuts to Tool-Use
19 The Emergence of Stone-Tool Use in Captive Chimpanzees
20 A Gibsonian Motor Analysis of the Nut-Cracking Technique
21 Education by Master-Apprenticeship

Part 5: Social life and Social intelligence
22 The Crop-Raiders of the Sacred Hill
23 Behavioral Flexibility and Division of Roles in Chimpanzee Road-Crossing
24 Play Behaviors Involving the Use of Objects in Young Chimpanzees at Bossou
25 Chimpanzee Mothers Carry the Mummified Remains of Their Dead Infants: Three Case Reports from Bossou
26 Comparison of Social Behaviors

Part 6: Adjacent Communities
27 The Chimpanzees of Yeale, Nimba
28 Chimpanzees in the Seringbara Region of the Nimba Mountains
29 Chimpanzees in the Eastern Part of the Nimba Mountains Biosphere Reserve: Gouela II and Dere Forest
30 Diecke Forest, Guinea: Delvinginto Chimpanzee Behavior Using Stone Tool Surveys
31 From Bossou to the Forests of Liberia

Part 7: Conservation
32 The 2003 Epidemic of a Flu-Like Respiratory Disease at Bossou
33 Microclimate and Moving Pattern
34 Genetic Variation in the Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba
35 Intestinal Bacteria in Chimpanzees in Bossou: A Preliminary Study of Their Nutritional Implication
36 Health Monitoring
37 Green Corridor Project: Planting Trees in the Savanna Between Bossou and Nimba
38 Environmental Education and Community Development in and Around Bossou
39 Conservation Issues in the Nimba Mountains
40 Chimpanzees in Guinea and in West Africa

Prof. Tetsuro Matsuzawa is world renowned for blending captive and field approaches to advance our understanding and appreciation of chimpanzee intelligence. He leads the Ai-project and is the director of Primate Research Institute of the University of Kyoto, Japan. He is also the director of the Bossou/Nimba field research station. He has more than 30 years of experience with working with chimpanzees in captivity, and more than 20 with chimpanzees in their natural habitat. He has received several prestigious awards for his achievements so far including the Prince Chichibu Memorial Science Award in 1991, the Jane Goodall Award in 2001 and the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2004. He is also a member of the executive committee of the IUCN (The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) Primate Specialist Group on Great Ape Conservation.