Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture
Author: Carel van Schaik
The local people know him as the "Man of the Forest," who refused to speak for fear of being put to work. And indeed the bear-like Sumatran orangutan, with his moon face, lanky arms, and shaggy red hair, does seem un ... |
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Author: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, S.G. Shanker & Talbot J. Taylor
Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to ... |
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Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History
Author: Russell L. Ciochon & Richard E. Nisbett
An edited volume for sophomore/junior level courses in Primate Behavior and Ecology or Human Origins. Unique in its broad topical coverage and accessibility to undergraduate-level students, this anthology offers a colle ... |
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Author: Guy Cowlishaw & Robin Dunbar
A recent report warns that nearly 20 per cent of the world's primates may go extinct by 2020. This work integrates theoretical advances with practical management priorities to give scientists and policymakers the tools t ... |
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The Gentle Giants
Author: Martin Harvey & Letitia Farris-Toussaint
Gorillas, once considered ferocious beasts, are now regarded to be gentle giants. Only discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, the mountain gorilla has ever since been subject to considerable observation by field biolo ... |
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Dian Fossey, Letters from the Mist
Author: Camilla de la Bedoyere
"No One Loved Gorillas More" In the early hours of December 27, 1985, Diane Fossey was murdered in her cabin by an unknown attacker -- "No One Loved Gorillas More" are the words inscribed on her gravestone. For 18 year ... |
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Legend Come to Life
Author: Ivan T. Sanderson
Do Abominable Snowmen exist? Prepare yourself for a shock. In the opinion of one of the world's leading naturalists, not one, but possibly four separate kinds of yeti still walk the earth! Factual reports of wild, strang ... |
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Wizards of the Rainforest
Author: Anne E Russon
Praise for the previous edition: ""A fascinating firsthand account of the behavior and intelligence of orangutans, Russon's book is also an account of the successes, failures, and politics of orangutan rehabilitation in ... |
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The Gentle Giants of the Forest
Author: Heather Angel
Japan's sole monkey - the Japanese macaque - lives both in subtropical lowlands and in sub alpine regions. The animals living in the Japanese Alps, where snow blankets the ground for most of the winter, are affectionatel ... |
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Author: Dale Peterson
"Eating Apes" is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned expose details ... |
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An Introduction to Familiar Species
Author: James Kavanagh
Gulf Coast Birds is a portable reference guide featuring over 100 species of birds found along the Gulf of Mexico. This richly illustrated and detailed guide is printed on laminate material and folds for easy handling. A ... |
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Author: Mark Brazil
This postcard book hones in on one of the most vividly animated species around, and is photographed by some of the worldis top wildlife photographers, as featured in the Pelican book, Wild Asia: Spirit of A Continent . T ... |
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An Introduction to Familiar Species
Author: James Kavanagh
San Diego Birds is a pocket-sized, folding Pocket Naturalist guide highlighting the most commonly seen birds in San Diego. Laminated for durability, these handy guides are a great source of portable information. Colorful ... |
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The Chimp Who Would be Human
Author: Elizabeth Hess
If ever a chimpanzee could be said to have charisma, it was Nim Chimpsky. Brought to New York as part of a scientific experiment, he lived his early years with a large family in an elegant brownstone on the Upper West Si ... |
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Author: Dian Fossey
Inspiring the award-winning film, Fossey's 13 years experience in the remote African rain forests with the endangered mountain gorillas are accounted in this classic work, which remains an enduring testament to one of th ... |
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50 Years at Gombe
Author: Jane Goodall
A lot has happened since Stewart, Tabori & Chang first published Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe in the Autumn of 1999. Most recently, Gombe has contributed ground-breaking AIDS research; established programmes to improv ... |
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The Smithsonian Answer Book
Author: Robert W. Shumaker & Benjamin B. Beck
A comprehensive response to the many thousands of calls and letters the Smithsonian receives regarding questions related to monkeys, apes, lemurs, tamarins and their relatives. What are primates? How closely related are ... |
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The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
Author: Maddalena Bearzi & Craig B. Stanford
Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans - Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study ap ... |
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Sightings and Encounters from 1818 to 2004
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My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Author: Jane Goodall
"Through aWindow" is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of an intimately intertwined community--one that reads like a novel, but is one of the most important scientific works ever published.The community is Go ... |
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