Mahale Chimpanzees

Author : Toshisada Nishida
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139505386
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore written by Toshisada Nishida and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whose studies of these apes at Gombe in Tanzania are justly famous. Less well-known, but equally important, are the studies carried out by Toshisada Nishida on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Comparison between the two sites yields both notable similarities and startling contrasts. Nishida has written a comprehensive synthesis of his work on the behaviour and ecology of the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains. With topics ranging from individual development to population-specific behavioural patterns, it reveals the complexity of social life, from male struggles for dominant status to female travails in raising offspring. Richly illustrated, the author blends anecdotes with powerful data to explore the fascinating world of the chimpanzees of the lakeshore.

Author : Michio Nakamura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052319
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahale Chimpanzees written by Michio Nakamura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.

Author : Michio Nakamura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368432
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahale Chimpanzees written by Michio Nakamura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term ecological research studies are rare and invaluable resources, particularly when they are as thoroughly documented as the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project in Tanzania. Directed by Toshisada Nishida from 1965 until 2011, the project continues to yield new and fascinating findings about our closest neighbour species. In a fitting tribute to Nishida's contribution to science, this book brings together fifty years of research into one encyclopaedic volume. Alongside previously unpublished data, the editors include new translations of Japanese writings throughout the book to bring previously inaccessible work to non-Japanese speakers. The history and ecology of the site, chimpanzee behaviour and biology, and ecological management are all addressed through firsthand accounts by Mahale researchers. The authors highlight long-term changes in behaviour, where possible, and draw comparisons with other chimpanzee sites across Africa to provide an integrative view of chimpanzee research today.

Author : Michio Nakamura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316378434
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahale Chimpanzees written by Michio Nakamura and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.

Author : Michio Nakamura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316374436
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahale Chimpanzees written by Michio Nakamura and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Toshisada Nishida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains written by Toshisada Nishida and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431539212
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba written by Tetsuro Matsuzawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to coexistence with humans. This community of Pan troglodytes verus has contributed more than three decades of data to the field of cultural primatology, especially chimpanzees’ flexible use of stones to crack open nuts and of perishable tools during foraging activities. The book highlights the special contribution of the long-term research at Bossou and more recent studies in surrounding areas, particularly in the Nimba Mountains and the forest of Diécké, to our understanding of wild chimpanzees’ tool use, cognitive development, lithic technology and culture. This compilation of research principally strives to uncover the complexity of the mind and behavioral flexibility of our closest living relatives. This work also reveals the necessity for ongoing efforts to conserve chimpanzees in the region. Chimpanzees have shed more light on our evolutionary origins than any other extant species in the world, yet their numbers in the wild are rapidly declining. In that sense, the Bossou chimpanzees and their neighbors clearly embody an invaluable cultural heritage for humanity as a whole. Readers can enjoy video clips illustrating unique behaviors of Bossou chimpanzees, in an exclusive DVD accompanying the hardcover or at a dedicated website described in the softcover.

Author : Peter M. Kappeler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642225136
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long-Term Field Studies of Primates written by Peter M. Kappeler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-07 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and life history, highlighting insights that were only possible because of the long-term nature of the study. The chapters of this volume collectively outline the many scientific reasons for studying primate behaviour, ecology and demography over multiple generations. This kind of research is typically necessitated by the relatively slow life histories of primates. Moreover, a complete understanding of social organization and behaviour, factors often influenced by rare but important events, requires long-term data collection. Finally, long-term field projects are also becoming increasingly important foci of local conservation activities.

Author : R. Brian Ferguson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197506755
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chimpanzees, War, and History written by R. Brian Ferguson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether men are predisposed to war runs hot in contemporary scholarship and online discussion. Within this debate, chimpanzee behavior is often cited to explain humans' propensity for violence; the claim is that male chimpanzees kill outsiders because they are evolutionarily inclined, suggesting to some that people are too. The longstanding critique that killing is instead due to human disturbance has been pronounced dead and buried. In Chimpanzees, War, and History, R. Brian Ferguson challenges this consensus. By historically contextualizing every reported chimpanzee killing, Ferguson offers and empirically substantiates two hypotheses. Primarily, he provides detailed demonstration of the connection between human impact and intergroup killing of adult chimpanzees. Secondarily, he argues that killings within social groups reflect status conflicts, display violence against defenseless individuals, and payback killings of fallen status bullies. Ferguson also explains broad chimpanzee-bonobo differences in violence through constructed and transmitted social organizations consistent with new perspectives in evolutionary theory. He deconstructs efforts to illuminate human warfare via chimpanzee analogy, and provides an alternative anthropological theory grounded in Pan-human contrasts that is applicable to different types of warfare. Bringing readers on a journey through theoretical struggle and clashing ideas about chimpanzees, bonobos, and evolution, Ferguson opens new ground on the age-old question--are men born to kill?

Author : Christophe Boesch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521006132
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos written by Christophe Boesch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), otherwise known as pygmy chimpanzees, are the only two species of the genus Pan. As they are our nearest relatives, there has been much research devoted to investigating the similarities and differences between them. This book offers an extensive review of the most recent observations to come from field studies on the diversity of Pan social behaviour, with contributions from many of the world's leading experts in this field. A wide range of social behaviours is discussed including tool use, hunting, reproductive strategies and conflict management as well as demographic variables and ecological constraints. In addition to interspecies behavioural diversity, this text describes exciting new research into variations between different populations of the same species. Researchers and students working in the fields of primatology, anthropology and zoology will find this a fascinating read.