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Group size is expected to be an important factor to predict home-range (HR) size in social animals. In chimpanzees adult males play an important role in defending the HR against neighbors, and therefore it has been suggested that HR size depends on the number of adult males. In this long-term study on wild West African chimpanzees, we analyzed the relative importance of community size and composition on ranging patterns over a 10-year period, using multivariate statistics. Because community size decreased from 51 individuals with 6 adult males in 1992 to 22 individuals with only 1 adult male in 2001, we expected a decrease in HR size, which should be better predicted by the number of males than by community size. We further investigated the effect of fruit availability on monthly HRs over a 4-year period. As predicted, HR size decreased during the first 7 years of our study but increased during the last 3 years. Overall, the number of adult males was the best predictor of HR size, whereas fruit availability did not correlate with HR size. HR use remained stable over the entire study period, with a constant proportion of about 35% of the HR used as core area. High HR and core-area overlap values between different years indicated strong site-fidelity. Although the number of males within the community explained the decrease in HR size, the recent increase in size remains unexplained. This finding suggests that other factors such as relative fighting power of males affect HR size. Copyright 2003.

Social influences on ranging patterns among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire