Chimpanzees of the lakeshore : natural history and culture at Mahale /

Chimpanzees of the lakeshore : natural history and culture at Mahale / Toshisada Nishida.

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"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 eq...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nishida, Toshisada, 1941-2011
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Chimpanzees > Behavior > Tanzania > Mahale Mountains National Park.
Chimpanzees > Ecology > Tanzania > Mahale Mountains National Park.
Chimpanzees > Behavior.
Chimpanzees > Ecology.
Tanzania > Mahale Mountains National Park.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Frans de Waal
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. At the beginning
  • 2. Food and feeding behaviour
  • 3. Growth and development
  • 4. Play and exploration
  • 5. Communication as culture
  • 6. Female life histories
  • 7. Sexual strategies
  • 8. Male political strategies
  • 9. Culture
  • 10. Conservation and the future
  • Postscript.

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