Table 2.

Major causes of death in adult^* chimpanzees in recent times

	PFA† 1992–2006	SNPRC‡ 1982–2006	APF§ 2001–2006	YNPRC¶ 1992–2008
Heart disease	1 (14%)	30 (35%)	13 (36%)	21 (36%)
Pneumonia	1	ns*	–	–
Renal disease	2	ns	9	9
Trauma	–	ns	3	7
Miscellaneous	4	57	11	21
Total	7	87	36	58

ns, not specified.

^*>10 years of age

^†PFA colony mortality data

^‡Seiler et al. (2008)

^§Lammey et al. (2008)

^¶YNPRC data from Table 1.