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Author : Deni Béchard
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771960335
Part history, part travelogue, part environmental manifesto, The Last Bonobo forces us to reexamine established modes of conservation—while blazing a path toward new, sustainable solutions to our most urgent environmental issues.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091199879
When Deni B'chard learned of the'last living bonobos'the matriarchal great apes'who are, alongside chimpanzees, our closest'relatives'he began exploring ways to reverse'their alarming decline. Upon arriving in'war-ravaged Congo, B'chard connected with'the Bonobo Conservation Institute (BCI),'a small organization that has done more to'save bonobos than any of its larger counterparts.'Witnessing BCI's activities first-hand,'B'chard realized that its approach offers a'unique, inspiring, post-colonial model of conservation'that is saving the bonobo by helping'rebuild and revitalize Congolese communities'devastated by war and chronic unemployment. Part history, part travelogue, part environmental'manifesto,'The Last Bonobo'forces us'to reexamine established modes of conservation'while blazing a path toward new,'sustainable solutions to our most urgent environmental issues.
Author : Deni Yvan Béchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Bonobo
ISBN : 1771960329
When acclaimed author Deni Béchard learned of the last livingbonobos - matriarchal great apes which are, alongside chimpanzees,our closest relatives - he was astonished. How could we accept thedisappearance of this majestic species, along with the rainforest itcalls home? Determined not to sit by and do nothing, Béchardbegan investigating the problems facing the bonobos - industrialand urban encroachment, aggressive resource extraction by foreigncomapnies, the civil war and genocide which had wreaked havocon the Congo intermittently or more than a century, the trade inbush-meat - and in the process discovered one small organization,the Bonobo Conservation Institute, which had done more tosave the bonobos than many much larger organizations. In BCIBéchard recognized a unique post-colonial model for conservationinitiatives which, if replicated, might provide one of the only hopesfor making the world a far better and more equitable place.Part polemic, part travelogue, part natural history, Bonobo Inc.offers a moving story of how a few committed people can affectgreat and lasting change, while point out the path which may allowus to emulate them.
Author : Takeshi Furuichi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811380594
This book describes the similarities and differences between two species, bonobos and chimpanzees, based on the three decades the author has spent studying them in the wild, and shows how the contrasting nature of these two species is also reflected in human nature. The most important differences between bonobos and chimpanzees, our closest relatives, are the social mechanisms of coexistence in group life. Chimpanzees are known as a fairly despotic species in which the males exclusively dominate over the females, and maintain a rigid hierarchy. Chimpanzees have developed social intelligence to survive severe competition among males: by upholding the hierarchy of dominance, they can usually preserve peaceful relations among group members. In contrast, female bonobos have the same or even a higher social status than males. By evolving pseudo-estrus during their non-reproductive period, females have succeeded in moderating inter-male sexual competition, and in initiating mate selection. Although they are non-related in male-philopatric society, they usually aggregate in a group, enjoy priority access to food, determine which male is the alpha male, and generally maintain much more peaceful social relations compared to chimpanzees. Lastly, by identifying key mechanisms of social coexistence in these two species, the author also seeks to find solutions or “hope” for the peaceful coexistence of human beings. "Takeshi Furuichi is one of very few scientists in the world familiar with both chimpanzees and bonobos. In lively prose, reflecting personal experience with apes in the rain forest, he compares our two closest relatives and explains the striking differences between the male- dominated and territorial chimpanzees and the female-centered gentle bonobos." Frans de Waal, author of Mama’s Last Hug - Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Norton, 2019)
Author : Frans B. M. de Waal,Frans Lanting
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520351288
This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution. The bonobo, least known of the great apes, is a female-centered, egalitarian species that has been dubbed the "make-love-not-war" primate by specialists. In bonobo society, females form alliances to intimidate males, sexual behavior (in virtually every partner combination) replaces aggression and serves many social functions, and unrelated groups mingle instead of fighting. The species's most striking achievement is not tool use or warfare but sensitivity to others. In the first book to combine and compare data from captivity and the field, Frans de Waal, a world-renowned primatologist, and Frans Lanting, an internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer, present the most up-to-date perspective available on the bonobo. Focusing on social organization, de Waal compares the bonobo with its better-known relative, the chimpanzee. The bonobo's relatively nonviolent behavior and the tendency for females to dominate males confront the evolutionary models derived from observing the chimpanzee's male power politics, cooperative hunting, and intergroup warfare. Further, the bonobo's frequent, imaginative sexual contacts, along with its low reproduction rate, belie any notion that the sole natural purpose of sex is procreation. Humans share over 98 percent of their genetic material with the bonobo and the chimpanzee. Is it possible that the peaceable bonobo has retained traits of our common ancestor that we find hard to recognize in ourselves? Eight superb full-color photo essays offer a rare view of the bonobo in its native habitat in the rain forests of Zaire as well as in zoos and research facilities. Additional photographs and highlighted interviews with leading bonobo experts complement the text. This book points the way to viable alternatives to male-based models of human evolution and will add considerably to debates on the origin of our species. Anyone interested in primates, gender issues, evolutionary psychology, and exceptional wildlife photography will find a fascinating companion in Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape.
Author : Takeshi Furuichi,Jo Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387747873
Once one of the least studied of the great apes, this new text covers the latest research into these fascinating creatures. Split into two parts, it covers scientific research, which has attempted to answer why bonobos have some unique characteristics such as high social status of females and flexible social relationships. Then, it moves on to conservation. Both the local and global aspects of the factors threatening the wild bonobo population are reviewed.
Author : Rui Diogo,Brian Shearer,Josep M. Potau,Juan F. Pastor,Felix J. de Paz,Julia Arias-Martorell,Cassandra Turcotte,Ashley Hammond,Evie Vereecke,Marie Vanhoof,Sandra Nauwelaerts,Bernard Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319541068
Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. However, surprisingly, the information about the soft tissues of bonobos is very scarce, making it difficult to discuss and understand human evolution. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of bonobos (Pan paniscus), adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of other apes previously published by the same authors. These books are part of a series of monographs that will set out the comparative and phylogenetic context of the gross anatomy and evolutionary history of the soft tissue morphology of modern humans and their closest relatives. The present atlas, which includes detailed high quality photographs of the musculoskeletal structures from most anatomical regions of the body as well as textual information about the attachments, innervation, function and weight of the respective muscles, is based on dissections of seven bonobos, including adults, adolescents, infants and fetuses, and males and females, and on an extensive review of the literature for comparisons with common chimpanzees. It therefore provides an updated review of the anatomical variations within chimpanzees as well as an extensive list of synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures covered here. Moreover, contrary to the previous photographic atlases of apes, it also provides details on neurovascular structures such as the brachial and lumbrosacral plexuses. The book will therefore be of interest to students, teachers and researchers focusing on primatology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, and physical anthropology and to medical students, doctors and researchers who are curious about the origin, evolution, homology and variations of the musculoskeletal and neurovascular structures of modern humans.
Author : Brian Hare,Shinya Yamamoto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004304178
This volume includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). Overall it demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or chimpanzees must also know bonobos.
Author : Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101528839
A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes-who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA. She soon discovered that many of the inhabitants of the sanctuary-ape and human alike-are refugees from unspeakable violence, yet bonobos live in a peaceful society in which females are in charge, war is nonexistent, and sex is as common and friendly as a handshake. A fascinating memoir of hope and adventure, Bonobo Handshake traces Vanessa's self-discovery as she finds herself falling deeply in love with her husband, the apes, and her new surroundings while probing life's greatest question: What ultimately makes us human? Courageous and extraordinary, this true story of revelation and transformation in a fragile corner of Africa is about looking past the differences between animals and ourselves, and finding in them the same extraordinary courage and will to survive. For Vanessa, it is about finding her own path as a writer and scientist, falling in love, and finding a home. Watch a Video
Author : Brian Hare,Shinya Yamamoto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191044205
The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the history of political instability in the region, has made their scientific study extremely difficult. In contrast, there are dozens of wild and captive sites where research has been conducted for decades with chimpanzees. Because data sets on bonobos have been so hard to obtain and so few large-scale studies have been published, the majority of researchers have treated chimpanzee data as being representative of both species. However, this misconception is now rapidly changing. With relative stability in the DRC for over a decade and a growing community of bonobos living in zoos and sanctuaries internationally, there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the bonobo with dozens of high impact publications focusing on this fascinating species. This research has revealed exactly how unique bonobos are in their brains and behavior, and reminds us why it is so important that we redouble our efforts to protect the few remaining wild populations of this iconic and highly endangered great ape species.
Author : Hare & Yamamoto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198728511
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782831715346
Author : Brian Hare,Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781101609637
The perfect gift for dog lovers and readers of Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz—this New York Times bestseller offers mesmerizing insights into the thoughts and lives of our smartest and most beloved pets. Does your dog feel guilt? Is she pretending she can't hear you? Does she want affection—or just your sandwich? In their New York Times bestselling book The Genius of Dogs, husband and wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods lay out landmark discoveries from the Duke Canine Cognition Center and other research facilities around the world to reveal how your dog thinks and how we humans can have even deeper relationships with our best four-legged friends. Breakthroughs in cognitive science have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique in the animal kingdom. This dog genius revolution is transforming how we live and work with dogs of all breeds, and what it means for you in your daily life with your canine friend.
Author : Frans B. M. Waal,Frans Lanting
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520205359
""Bonobo" provides a tantalizing introduction to the natural history of one of our closest living relatives and uniquely enhances our understanding of our own place in nature" (Donald Johanson). "How nice to have the peaceable, sexy bonobo added to the path of human evolution! Bonobos represent the silver lining in our ape heritage" (Meredith Small). 75 color plates. 9 photos. 9 maps & drawings.
Author : Christophe Boesch,Gottfried Hohmann,Linda Frances Marchant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521006139
A fascinating text describing the behavioural diversity of chimpanzees and bonobos (the pygmy chimpanzee).
