Preface Paul G. Helsne Foreword Jane Goodall Study Sites in Africa The Challenge of Behavioral Diversity Richard W. Wrangham, Frans B.M. de Waal, and W. C. McGrew Section I: Ecology Overview--Ecology, Diversity, and Culture Richard W. Wrangham Tools Compared: The Material of Culture W. C. McGrew Party Size in Chimpanzees and Bonobos: A Reevaluation of Theory Based on Two Similarly Forested Sites Colin A. Chapman, Frances J. White, and Richard W. Wrangham The Significance of Terrestrial Herbaceous Foods for Bonobos, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas Richard K. Malenky, Suchisa Kuroda, Evelyn Ono Vineberg, and Richard W. Wrangham Hunting Strategies of Gombe and Tai Chimpanzees Christophe Boesch Comparative Locomotor Behavior of Chimpanzees and Bonobos: Species and Habitat Differences Diane M. Doran and Kevin D. Hunt Comparative Analyses of Nest-Building Behavior in Bonobos and Chimpanzees Barbara Fruth and Gossfried Hohman Diversity of Medicinal Plant Use by Chimpanzees in the Wild Michael A. Huffman and Richard W. Wrangham Section II: Social Relations Overview--Diversity in Social Relations W. C. McGrew Social Role and Development of Noncopulatory Sexual Behavior of Wild Bonobos Chie Hashimoto and Takeshi Furuichi Grooming Relationships in Two Species of Chimpanzees Yasuyuki Muroyama and Yukimaru Sugiyama Reproductive Sucess Story: Variability Among Chimpanzees and Comparisons with Gorillas Caroline E.G. Tusin Ethological Studies of Chimpanzee Vocal Behavior John C. Mitani Pacifying Interventions at Arnhem Zoo and Gombe Christopher Boehm Social Relationships of Female Chimpanzees: Diversity Between Captive Social Groups Kate C. Baker and Barbara B. Smuts Chimpanzee's Adaptive Potential: A Comparison of Social Life Under Captive and Wild Conditions Frans B.M. de Waal
Chimpanzee Cultures beautifully conveys the experience of working with chimpanzees, our closest living relative...[It] gives us a better appreciation of the place of our own species in Nature. -- Jane Goodall
Richard W. Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. William C. McGrew is Professor of Anthropology and Zoology at Miami University, Ohio. Frans B. M. de Waal is C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Psychology Department and Director of Living Links, part of the Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University. Paul G. Heltne, zoologist and primatologist, is President Emeritus of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Linda A. Marquardt was Editor of Publications at the Chicago Academy of Sciences between 1986 and 1992.
Chimpanzee Cultures beautifully conveys the experience of working
with chimpanzees, our closest living relative...[It] gives us a
better appreciation of the place of our own species in Nature.
*Jane Goodall*
This volume presents the best up-to-date collection of the current
state of knowledge of most aspects of chimpanzee behaviour, and it
spells out the dangers now facing the apes and their environments.
The study of chimpanzee cultures is crying out for more information
from the increasingly isolated and diminishing communities of these
apes. This book shows what has to be done, and where.
*Animal Behaviour*
Chimpanzee Cultures is a title to catch the eye...The aims are made
explicit at the outset: to create a discipline of `cultural
primatology' by using the tools to the cultural sciences and
encouraging the use of ethnography in comparing chimpanzee
populations...The quality of material on the subject animals is
high. All the papers are original, many containing previously
unpublished data, and they do an excellent job of highlighting
behavioural diversity...This is a book chiefly aimed at the
scholarly community, yet it carries an important message for all of
us. Wild chimpanzee populations continue to decline through habitat
destruction and hunting for bush-meat: the bare bones of this are
made clear in the book's final chapter by Jane Goodall. The
dwindling of any species through human short-sightedness is
depressing, but chimpanzees present a special case. Chimpanzee
Cultures provides ample evidence that chimpanzees are not simply
carbon copies of one another. The species may survive but the
extinction of cultures may be proceeding as we speak.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
This excellent volume introduces the state of the art in
primatology. Its lessons are worth learning. There can be no
philosophical understanding of what it means to be human apart from
understanding what it means to be chimpanzee.
*Common Knowledge*
This book is, quite simply, a wonderful review of current knowledge
of the Pan genus.
*Quarterly Review of Biology*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
