Chimpanzee Behavior in the Wild : An Audio-Visual Encyclopedia

Toshisada Nishida

ISBN 10: 4431538941 / ISBN 13: 9784431538943

Published by Springer Japan, Springer Japan, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Where We Stand Field workers-scientists of animal (including human!) behavior in nature-have long been fascinated by wild chimpanzees. A person who once has studied wild chimpanzees will be eager to observe them again. A person who has studied them twice will make every effort to continue the study, unless prevented from doing so. In short, behavioral primatology is addictive! Many people, among them Jane Goodall, Richard Wrangham, and I, do not regret that they have dedicated their whole lives to the study of wild chimpanzees. This is because the apes' behavior is always challenging: chimpanzees are cheerful, charming, playful, curious, beautiful, easygoing, generous, tolerant, and trustw- thy most of the time, but also are cautious, cunning, ugly, violent, ferocious, blo- thirsty, greedy, and disloyal at other times. We human beings share both the light and dark sides with our closest living relatives. For decades, we have documented huge across-population variation in behavior, as well as within-population variation. Cultural biology (now called cultural pri- tology), as proposed 60 years ago by Kinji Imanishi, recently has flourished.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chimpanzee Behavior in the Wild : An Audio-Visual Encyclopedia
• Publisher: Springer Japan, Springer Japan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4431538941
• ISBN 13: 9784431538943
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 19D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 599 grams

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Synopsis

Where We Stand Field workers scientists of animal (including human!) behavior in nature have long been fascinated by wild chimpanzees. A person who once has studied wild chimpanzees will be eager to observe them again. A person who has studied them twice will make every effort to continue the study, unless prevented from doing so. In short, behavioral primatology is addictive! Many people, among them Jane Goodall, Richard Wrangham, and I, do not regret that they have dedicated their whole lives to the study of wild chimpanzees. This is because the apes behavior is always challenging: chimpanzees are cheerful, charming, playful, curious, beautiful, easygoing, generous, tolerant, and trustw- thy most of the time, but also are cautious, cunning, ugly, violent, ferocious, blo- thirsty, greedy, and disloyal at other times. We human beings share both the light and dark sides with our closest living relatives. For decades, we have documented huge across-population variation in behavior, as well as within-population variation. Cultural biology (now called cultural pri- tology), as proposed 60 years ago by Kinji Imanishi, recently has flourished.

About the Author

R. Wayne Davies, IBLS, Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Glasgow. Brian J. Morris, IBLS, Division of Neuroscience and Biomedical Systems, University of Glasgow.