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In an exhilarating account of his 21-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, Robert Sapolsky interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti—for... [ More...]
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The first major and most comprehensive synthesis of results from ecological, naturalistic behavioral, comparative psychological and humanoid language research on apes since the classic work, The Great Apes, by Robert M. and Ada Yerkes in 1929. Based on more... [ More...]
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A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. As with any adventure worth retelling, however, Peterson's detours are as notable as his destinations. With the good-natured... [ More...]
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Experience and research in the African jungles at the end of the 19th Century. With illustrations from photographs.
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This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. The relatively new molecular data allow... [ More...]
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Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough—bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say something about primate—even hominid—evolution.... [ More...]
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"Chartier and Joe were expecting again and I was dreading it. It was always the same. I would be awakened at midnight by the screams of terrified baby monkeys being forcefully rejected by their parents. I would leap out of bed and race into the monkey room,... [ More...]
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This field study is intended to introduce students to the habitat, behavior and social organization of the Vervet and Patas monkeys through observation of these primates and quantitative ecological methods of measuring food resources to test current models... [ More...]
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This book is about he social life of monkeys, apes and humans. The central theme is the importance of social information and knowledge to a full understanding of primate social behavior and organization. Using this perspective, the authors seek to... [ More...]
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"Eating Apes" is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of the African great apes. In bringing the facts of this crisis into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes readers one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing... [ More...]
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