African Apes

Author : Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520274594

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Among African Apes by Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch Pdf

These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes—and at the lives of the humans who study them. In tales of adventure, research, and conservation, veteran field researchers and conservationists describe exciting discoveries made over the past few decades about chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. The book features vivid descriptions of interactions among these highly intelligent creatures as they hunt, socialize, and play. More difficult themes emerge as well, including the threats apes face from poaching, disease, and deforestation. In stories that are often moving and highly personal, this book takes measure of how special the great apes are and discusses positive conservation efforts, including ecotourism, that can help bring these magnificent animals back from the brink of extinction.

Author : Biruté M.F. Galdikas,Nancy Erickson Briggs,Lori K. Sheeran,Gary L. Shapiro,Jane Goodall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306474613

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All Apes Great and Small by Biruté M.F. Galdikas,Nancy Erickson Briggs,Lori K. Sheeran,Gary L. Shapiro,Jane Goodall Pdf

Many of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Third International Great Apes of the World Conference, held July 3-6, 1998 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The editors of this volume, the first in a two-volume series, are world renowned, having dedicated most of their lives to the study of great apes. The world's premiere primatologists, ethologists, and anthropologists present the most recent research on both captive and free-ranging African great apes. These scientists, through deep personal commitment and sacrifice, have expanded their knowledge of chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. With forests disappearing, many of these studies will never be duplicated. This volume, and all in the Developments in Primatology book series, aim to broaden and deepen the understanding of this valuable cause.

Author : Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520267107

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Among African Apes by Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch Pdf

“Among African Apes is an exciting report fresh from the scientific frontlines—a series of personal, dramatic, and yet superbly informative accounts of the latest research. It also reminds us that our nearest relatives, the African great apes, are threatened as never before with the prospect of extinction.”-Dale Peterson, author of Elephant Reflections and Eating Apes “This engaging and compelling book is an up-close-and-personal glimpse into the lives of wild chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. In these narratives, set in the lush, tangled forests of tropical Africa, scientific observation meets adventure story as the lives of individual animals are intertwined with the agonies and ecstasies of fieldwork.”-Kelly Stewart, co-author of Gorilla Society and author of Gorillas "Some of the most devoted primatologists offer a wonderful collection of first-hand accounts and splendid photographs that make us feel like we're beside them watching our relatives in the forest."-Frans de Waal, author of Our Inner Ape and Chimpanzee Politics

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520243323

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Eating Apes by Dale Peterson Pdf

Annotation As Jane Goodall never fails to mention, "bush meat is the greatest conservation crisis in my lifetime." This book documents in text and photographs how wild animals in the Congo Basin, particularly the Great Apes but also chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are slaughtered and used for human consumption.

Author : Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520948839

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Among African Apes by Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch Pdf

These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes—and at the lives of the humans who study them. In tales of adventure, research, and conservation, veteran field researchers and conservationists describe exciting discoveries made over the past few decades about chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. The book features vivid descriptions of interactions among these highly intelligent creatures as they hunt, socialize, and play. More difficult themes emerge as well, including the threats apes face from poaching, disease, and deforestation. In stories that are often moving and highly personal, this book takes measure of how special the great apes are and discusses positive conservation efforts, including ecotourism, that can help bring these magnificent animals back from the brink of extinction.

Author : John Sorenson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861897466

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Ape by John Sorenson Pdf

Apes—to look at them is to see a mirror of ourselves. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behavior and social personality. Here, John Sorenson delves into our conflicted relationship to the great apes, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves. From bonobos and chimpanzees to gibbons, gorillas, and orangutans, Ape examines the many ways these remarkable animals often serve as models for humans. Anthropologists use their behavior to help explain our fundamental human nature; scientists utilize them as subjects in biomedical research; and behavioral researchers experiment with ways apes emulate us. Sorenson explores the challenges to the complex division between apes and ourselves, describing language experiments, efforts to cross-foster apes by raising them as human children, and the ethical challenges posed by the Great Ape Project. As well, Ape investigates representations of apes in popular culture, particularly films and advertising in which apes are often portrayed as human caricatures, monsters, and clowns. Containing nearly one hundred illustrations of apes in nature and culture, Ape will appeal to readers interested in animal-human relationships and anyone curious to know more about our closest animal cousins, many of whom teeter on the brink of extinction.

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Committee on Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309176507

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The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates by National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Committee on Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates Pdf

A 1985 amendment to the Animal Welfare Act requires those who keep nonhuman primates to develop and follow appropriate plans for promoting the animals' psychological well-being. The amendment, however, provides few specifics. The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates recommends practical approaches to meeting those requirements. It focuses on what is known about the psychological needs of primates and makes suggestions for assessing and promoting their well-being. This volume examines the elements of an effective care program--social companionship, opportunities for species-typical activity, housing and sanitation, and daily care routines--and provides a helpful checklist for designing a plan for promoting psychological well-being. The book provides a wealth of specific and useful information about the psychological attributes and needs of the most widely used and exhibited nonhuman primates. Readable and well-organized, it will be welcomed by animal care and use committees, facilities administrators, enforcement inspectors, animal advocates, researchers, veterinarians, and caretakers.

Author : Barbara J. KING,Barbara J King
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674039612

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The Dynamic Dance by Barbara J. KING,Barbara J King Pdf

Using dynamic systems theory, employed to study human communication, King demonstrates the complexity of apes' social communication, and the extent to which their interactions generate meaning. As King describes, apes create meaning primarily through their body movements--and go well beyond conveying messages about food, mating, or predators.

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520938427

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Eating Apes by Dale Peterson Pdf

Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by compelling color photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. Eating Apes persuasively argues that the American conservation media have failed to report the ongoing collapse of the ape population. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.

Author : David R. Begun
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691182803

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The Real Planet of the Apes by David R. Begun Pdf

The astonishing new story of human origins Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world’s leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many migratory populations of ape species. Begun draws on the latest astonishing discoveries in the fossil record, as well as his own experiences conducting field expeditions, to offer a sweeping evolutionary history of great apes and humans. He tells the story of how one of the earliest members of our evolutionary group evolved from lemur-like monkeys in the primeval forests of Africa. Begun then vividly describes how, over the next ten million years, these hominoids expanded into Europe and Asia and evolved climbing and hanging adaptations, longer maturation times, and larger brains. As the climate deteriorated in Europe, these apes either died out or migrated south, reinvading the African continent and giving rise to the lineages of African great apes, and, ultimately, humans. Presenting startling new insights, The Real Planet of the Apes fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins.

Author : Russell Ciochon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468488548

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New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry by Russell Ciochon Pdf

Author : William C. McGrew,Linda F. Marchant,Toshisada Nishida
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521555361

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Great Ape Societies by William C. McGrew,Linda F. Marchant,Toshisada Nishida Pdf

The great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) are our closest living relatives, sharing a common ancestor only five million years ago. We also share key features such as high intelligence, omnivorous diets, prolonged child-rearing and rich social lives. The great apes show a surprising diversity of adaptations, particularly in social life, ranging from the solitary life of orangutans, through patriarchy in gorillas to complex but different social organisations in bonobos and chimpanzees. As great apes are so close to humans, comparisons yield essential knowledge for modelling human evolutionary origins. Great Ape Societies provides comprehensive up-to-date syntheses of work on all four species, drawing on decades of international field work, zoo and laboratory studies. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in primatology, anthropology, psychology and human evolution.

Author : John F. Oates,IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015053926146

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African Primates by John F. Oates,IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group Pdf

Author : Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674727854

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Apes and Human Evolution by Russell H. Tuttle Pdf

In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.

Author : Horace Waller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081865995

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Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks by Horace Waller Pdf