The challenge of behavioural diversity, Richard W. Wrangham et al. Part 1 Ecology: overview - ecology, diversity and culture, Richard W. Wrangham; tools compared - the material of culture, W.C. McGrew; party size in chimpanzees and bonobos - a re-evaluation of theory based on two similarly forested sites, Colin A. Chapman et al; the significance of terrestrial herbaceous foods for bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas, Richard K. Malenky et al; hunting strategies of Gombe and Tai chimpanzees, Christophe Boesch; comparative locomotor behaviour of chimpanzees and bonobos - species and habitat differences, Diane M. Doran and Kevin D. Hunt; comparative analyses of nest-building behaviour in bonobos and chimpanzees, Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohman; diversity of medicinal plant use by chimpanzees in the wild, Michael A. Huffman and Richard W. Wrangham. Part 2 Social relations: overview - diversity in social relations, W.C. McGrew; social role and development of noncopulatory sexual behaviour of wild bonobos, Chie Hashimoto and Takeshi Furuichi; grooming relationships in two species of chimpanzees, Yasuyuki Muroyama and Yukimaru Sugiyama; reproductive success story - variability among chimpanzees and comparisons with gorillas, Caroline E.G. Tutin; ethological studies of chimpanzee vocal behaviour, John C. Mitani; pacifying interventions at Arnhem Zoo and Gombe, Christopher Boehm; social relationships of female chimpanzees - diversity between captive social groups, Kate C. Baker and Barbara B. Smuts; chimpanzee's adaptive potential - a comparison of social life under captive and wild conditions, Frans B.M. de Waal. Part 3 Cognition: overview - culture and cognition, Frans B.M. de Waal; understanding chimpanzee understanding, Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff; what chimpanzees (might) know about the mind, Daniel J. Povinelli; the question of chimpanzee culture, Michael Tomasello; biobehavioural roots of language - a comparative perspective of chimpanzee, child and culture, Duane M. Rumbaugh et al; individual differences in the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees, Sarah T. Boysen; field experiments on use of stone tools in the wild, Tetsuro Matsuzawa. Part 4 Afterword and postscript: afterword - review of recent findings on Mahale chimpanzees - implications and future research directions, Toshisada Nishida; postscript - conservation and the future of chimpanzee and bonobo research in Africa, Jane Goodall.
"Chimpanzee Cultures" is a title to catch the eye...The aims are
made explicit at the outset: to create a discipline of cultural
primatology' by using the tools to the cultural sciences and
encouraging the use of ethnography in comparing chimpanzee
populations...The quality of material on the subject animals is
high. All the papers are original, many containing previously
unpublished data, and they do an excellent job of highlighting
behavioural diversity...This is a book chiefly aimed at the
scholarly community, yet it carries an important message for all of
us. Wild chimpanzee populations continue to decline through habitat
destruction and hunting for bush-meat: the bare bones of this are
made clear in the book's final chapter by Jane Goodall. The
dwindling of any species through human short-sightedness is
depressing, but chimpanzees present a special case. "Chimpanzee
Cultures" provides ample evidence that chimpanzees are not simply
carbon copies of one another. The species may surv
This excellent volume introduces the state of the art in
primatology. Its lessons are worth learning. There can be no
philosophical understanding of what it means to be human apart from
understanding what it means to be chimpanzee.--Barry Allen "Common
Knowledge "
This volume presents the best up-to-date collection of the current
state of knowledge of most aspects of chimpanzee behaviour, and it
spells out the dangers now facing the apes and their environments.
The study of chimpanzee cultures is crying out for more information
from the increasingly isolated and diminishing communities of these
apes. This book shows what has to be done, and where.--James R.
Anderson "Animal Behaviour "
This book is, quite simply, a wonderful review of current knowledge
of the "Pan" genus.
"Chimpanzee Cultures is a title to catch the eye...The aims are
made explicit at the outset: to create a discipline of cultural
primatology' by using the tools to the cultural sciences and
encouraging the use of ethnography in comparing chimpanzee
populations...The quality of material on the subject animals is
high. All the papers are original, many containing previously
unpublished data, and they do an excellent job of highlighting
behavioural diversity...This is a book chiefly aimed at the
scholarly community, yet it carries an important message for all of
us. Wild chimpanzee populations continue to decline through habitat
destruction and hunting for bush-meat: the bare bones of this are
made clear in the book's final chapter by Jane Goodall. The
dwindling of any species through human short-sightedness is
depressing, but chimpanzees present a special case. "Chimpanzee
Cultures provides ample evidence that chimpanzees are not simply
carbon copies of one another. The species may survive but the
extinction of cultures may be proceeding as we speak.
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