Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-12-15-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-12-15-2025
Research article
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19 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2025

Gastrointestinal parasites in West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Fongoli (Kedougou, Senegal)

Papa Mamadou Sy, Kacou Martial N'da, Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, Oubri Bassa Gbati, and Jill Daphne Pruetz

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Short summary
Fongoli (Kedougou, Senegal) is a hot and dry area with a habituated group of chimpanzees. There are many anthropogenic activities, such as mining exploitation and deforestation. As a result, the possibilities of zoonosis circulation between humans and wild animals are great. This situation has motivated our interest to conduct this study on the gastrointestinal systems of chimpanzees in order to reduce the prevalence of invasive zoonoses at this site.
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