Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes - Hardcover

De Waal, Frans

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224018744 ISBN 13: 9780224018746

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1982

Synopsis

Observations of a chimpanzee colony reveal their political behavior, sense of community, and distinction between good and bad behavior

About this title

Review:

The great apes, like humans, can recognize themselves in mirrors. They communicate by sound and gesture, form bands along what can only be called political lines, and sometimes engage in what is very clearly organized warfare. (Less frequently, too, they practice cannibalism.) In Chimpanzee Politics Frans de Waal, a longtime student of simian behavior, analyzes the behavior of a captive tribe of chimpanzees, comparing its actions with those of ape societies in the wild. What he finds is often not pleasant: chimps seem capable of astonishing deviousness and savagery, which has obvious implications for the behavior their human cousins sometimes exhibit.

About the Author:

Frans de Waal is the C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University in Atlanta and the director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. His books include The Ape and the Sushi Master; Peacemaking among Primates; and Our Inner Ape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0224018744
• ISBN 13: 9780224018746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224