Jennifer Williams

While Jen was studying the Gombe chimps, she investigated a number of aspects of their social system, including: male territoriality and the role of females in chimpanzee community structure; female space use in relation to how they associate with males and each other; the relationship between female dominance rank and reproductive success; and how factors such as dominance rank and age of offspring influence how social females are, and who they spend time with. She also examined causes of death in the Gombe chimps, and the relationship between body weight and age, community range size, and dominance rank.