@article {309556,
	title = {Skeletal and dental growth and development in chimpanzees of the Tai National Park, Cote D{\textquoteright}Ivoire},
	journal = {Journal of Zoology },
	volume = {273},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {63-73},
	abstract = {<p>An extraordinary collection of 22 immature skeletons from Ta{\"\i} National Park, C{\^o}te d{\textquoteright}Ivoire, has provided a rare opportunity to establish the timing of dental eruption and its correlation with skeletal fusion and morphometrics in wild chimpanzees of known chronological ages. Comparison of the immature Ta{\"\i} chimpanzees\&nbsp;Pan troglodytes verus\&nbsp;with adults from the same population show that sex differences in skeletal maturation apparently appear during the Juvenile II stage, about age 8. A few skeletons from other chimpanzee field sites conform to the dental and skeletal growth in Ta{\"\i} chimpanzees. The tempo of wild chimpanzee growth contrasts sharply with the rate demonstrated for captive individuals. Captive chimpanzees may mature as much as 3\&nbsp;years earlier. The ability to link physical development with field observations of immature chimpanzees increases our understanding of their life-history stages. These data provide an improved dataset for comparing the rates of growth among chimpanzees,\&nbsp;Homo sapiens\&nbsp;and fossil hominids.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00301.x},
	author = {Zihlman, A. L. and Bolter, D. R. and Boesch, C.}
}
