Apes
of the World
by Russell H. Tuttle
Book Description: The first major and most comprehensive synthesis
of results from ecological, naturalistic behavioral, comparative psychological
and humanoid language research on apes since the classic work, The Great
Apes, by Robert M. and Ada Yerkes in 1929. Based on more than 1,360 references
from scientific journals, monographs, symposium volumes and other public
sources, the book contains a wealth of current information on the taxonomy,
ecology, postural and locomotive behavior, natural communications, anmd
social behavior of the apes. Topical discussions in the book are organized
to show the extent of progress, including the development of new research
questions, and the way our views of apes have changed as new information
has become available since 1929.
Apes,
Language, and the Human Mind
by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Talbot J. Taylor, Stuart G. Shanker
Book Description: For more than 25 years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been
studying the cognitive skills of laboratory-reared primates. Recently,
her work achieved a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: one
subject has acquired linguistic and cognitive skills equal to those of
a 2-1/2-year-old human child. Apes, Language and the Human Mind skillfully
combines the exciting narrative regarding this work with incisive critical
analysis of the broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological
implications. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers
a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind.
Aotus:
The Owl Monkey
by Janet F. Baer, Richard E. Weller (Editor), Ibulaimu Kakoma (Editor)
Among
the Orangutans: The Birute Galdikas Story (The Great Naturalists)
by Evelyn Gallardo
Publisher: Chronicle Books; (March 1993)
Brutal
Kinship
Bringing
Up Ziggy
Baboon
Mothers and Infants
by Jeanne Altmann
Bonobos
The Forgotten Ape
by F. B. M. De Waal, Frans Lanting (Photographer)
For Frans de Waal, man is not the only moral entity, as he made clear
in his last book--Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans
and Other Animals. The author has long been intrigued by chimpanzee politics
and mores, and now he has turned his human heart and scientific mind to
a species science has tended to celebrate solely for its sex drive. Bonobos
may look like chimps, but they are actually even closer to us--far more
upright, physically, for a start. Furthermore, where chimpanzees hunt,
fight, and politic like mad, bonobos are peaceful, often ambisexual, and
matriarchal. (Of course, hyenas are matriarchal too, but that's another
story ...) De Waal's collaborator, Frans Lanting, has been photographing
these gentle creatures for some years and augments the primatologist's
explorations and interviews with hundreds of superb color shots. The penultimate
picture is of bonobos crossing a road while schoolchildren stand watching,
a short distance away. If, as the truism goes, all books about animal behavior
are ultimately about us, this exploration of the bonobo may be a step in
the right direction. Amazon.com
Chimpanzee
and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey
by Craig B. Stanford, Richard Wrangham
ISBN: 0674116674
Chimpanzee
Politics : Power and Sex Among Apes
by Frans De Waal
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.
Amazon.com
Primate
Anatomy: An Introduction
by Friderun Ankel-Simons, John G. Fleagle
(Paperback - November 1999)
Primate
Anthology, The: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from
Natural History
by Russell L. Ciochon (Editor), et al
(Paperback)
Jane Goodall, 40 Years at Gombe: A Tribute to Four Decades of Wildlife
Research, Education, and Conservation
by Jennifer Lindsey, et al
Listed under Jane Goodall
In
the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land
by Bill Weber, Amy Vedder
(Hardcover - September 2001)
Lion
Tamarins: Biology and Conservation (Zoo and Aquarium Biology and Conservation
Series)
by Devra G. Kleiman (Editor), Anthony B. Rylands (Editor)
(Hardcover)
The
Orang Utan: Its Biology and Conservation (Perspectives in Vertebrate Science,
V. 2)
by Workshop on the Conservation of the Orang Utan, et al
Hardcover: 368 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 9.21 x
0.76 x 6.14
Publisher: Dr W Junk Pub Co; (October 1982)
ISBN: 9061937027
Primate
Conservation Biology
by Guy Cowlishaw, R. I. M. Dunbar
(Hardcover - September 2000)
Great
Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence
by Bejamin B. Beck (Editor), et al
Book Description: Great Apes and Humans is the first book to present
a spectrum of viewpoints on human responsibilities toward great apes. A
variety of field biologists, academic scientists, zoo professionals, psychologists,
sociologists, ethicists, and legal scholars consider apes in both the wild
and captivity.
(Hardcover)
The
Chimpanzees of Kibale Forest: A Field Study
by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Hardcover: 226 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 9.27 x 6.25
Publisher: Columbia University Press; (January 1984)
ISBN: 0231055943
The
Chimpanzees of the Tai Forest: Behavioural Ecology and Evolution
by Christophe Boesch, Hedwige Boesch-Achermann
Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
9.50 x 6.75
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (July 2000)
ISBN: 0198505078
Gorillas
in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
Great
Ape Societies
by William C. McGrew (Editor), Linda F. Marchant (Editor), Toshisada
Nishida (Editor)
Hierarchy
in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior
by Christopher Boehm
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (February 2000)
Next
of Kin: My Conversations With Chimpanzees
by Various (Author)
For three decades, primatologist Roger Fouts has been involved in language
studies of the chimpanzee, the animal most closely related to human beings.
Among his subjects was the renowned Washoe, who was "endowed with a powerful
need to learn and communicate," and who developed an extraordinary vocabulary
in American sign language. Another chimpanzee, Fouts writes, "never made
a grammatical error," which turned a whole school of linguistic theory
upside down. While reporting these successes, Fouts also notes that chimpanzees
are regularly abused in laboratory settings and that in the wild their
number has fallen from 5,000,000 to fewer than 175,000 in the last century.
Primate
Adaptation and Evolution
by John G. Fleagle
Primate
Behavioral Ecology
by Karen B. Strier
Book Description: Primate Behavioral Ecology, described as "an engaging,
cutting-edge exposition," incorporates exciting new discoveries in its
introduction to the field and its applications of behavioral ecology to
primate conservation. Like no other on the market, this comprehensive book
integrates the basics of evolutionary and ecological approaches and new
noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to the study of primate behavior
with up-to-date coverage of how different primates behave. Examples are
drawn from the "classic" primate field studies and more recent studies
on previously neglected species, illustrating the vast behavioral variation
that we now know exists and the gaps in our knowledge that future studies
will fill. For anyone interested in anthropology, psychology, biology,
and zoology, specifically related to primate behavior.
Paperback: 432 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x
9.24 x 6.94
Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon; 2nd edition (June
26, 2002)
ISBN: 0205352367
A
Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other
popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become
a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History
and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare
for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate
student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was
markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things,
he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into
his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required
him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also
had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure
the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel
and beans.
His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings
a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints,
may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas
by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats
whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges.
It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject
whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species
and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he
writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect
snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under
a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee
- Amazon.com
Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x
8.08 x 5.92
Publisher: Touchstone Books; (March 2002)
ISBN: 0743202414
Walking
With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas
by Sy Montgomery (Author)
Primate
Communities
by J. G. Fleagle (Editor), Charles Janson (Editor), Kaye Reed (Editor)
Primate
Males: Causes and Consequences of Variation in Group Composition
by Peter M. Kappeler (Editor)
Book Description: The size and composition of primate groups varies
tremendously across species, within species, and within groups over time.
Written by leading authorities, this book focuses on the causes and consequences
of variation in the number of males per group. This variation lies at the
heart of understanding adaptive variation among primate social systems.
The volume also provides an extensive overview of variation in group composition
across all major primate taxa using up-to-date reviews, case studies, evolutionary
theory, and theoretical models. A comparative review of birds and selected
other mammals is included. This text will become a favorite with all those
interested in the behavioral ecology of primates.
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); (May 2000)
Primate
Taxonomy (Smithsonian Series in Comparative Evolutionary Biology)
by Colin P. Groves
Hardcover from Smithsonian Institution Press
Book Published: April, 2001
Walker's
Primates of the World
by William R. Konstant (Introduction), et al.
ISBN: 0801862515
The
Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates
by Noel Rowe
Hardcover: 263 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x
11.21 x 8.76
Publisher: Pogonias Pr; (August 1996)
ISBN: 0964882507
Peacemaking
Among Primates
by Frans De Waal, F. B. M. De Waal
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.70 x 9.21 x 6.51
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Reprint edition (September
1990)
ISBN: 067465921X
Primate
Cognition
by Michael Tomasello, Josep Call
Book Description: Ever since Charles Darwin first formulated his theories
on evolution, much research has been conducted in primate cognition. In
this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call review what is already known
about the cognitive skills of nonhuman primates, and assess the current
state of our knowledge. They integrate empirical findings on the topic
from the beginning of the century to the present, placing this work in
theoretical perspective. The first part examines the way primates adapt
to their physical world, mostly for the purpose of foraging. The second
part lokos at primate social knowledhe and focuses on the adaptations of
primates to their social world for purposes of competation and cooperation.
In the third section, the authors construct a general theory of primate
cognition, distinguishing the cognition in primates from that of other
mammals (human in particular). Their broad-ranging theory should provide
a guide for future research. Primate Cognition is an enlightening exploration
of the cognitive capacities of our nearest primate relatives. It is a useful
resource for a eide range of researchers and students in psychology, behavioral
biology, primatology, and anthropology.
Primate
Societies
by Barbara B. Smuts et al.
Minds
of Their Own: Thinking and Awareness in Animals
by Lesley J. Rogers
Mountain
Gorillas: Three Decades of Research at Karisoke (Cambridge Studies)
by Martha M. Robbins et al.
Book Description: Over thirty years ago, Dian Fossey established the
Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda to study the behavior and ecology of
mountain gorillas. Some of the offspring of the gorillas first studied
by Fossey are still being observed today and the long-term observations
on known individuals, from birth to death, and data on social behavior
within and among the groups have led to an understanding of many aspects
of gorilla social structure. Written by scientists who have worked at Karisoke
over the years, this book highlights and summarizes what we have learned
about the behavior, ecology, and conservation of the genus Gorilla and
two other recognized subspecies and provides some comparisons with other
gorilla populations elsewhere in Africa.
Gorillas
in Our Midst: The Story of the Columbus Zoo Gorillas
by Jeff Lyttle, Jack Hanna
ISBN: 0814207669
Kanzi
: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Author), Roger Lewin (Author)
The
Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives
by Sue Taylor Parker et al.
Reflections
of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
by Birute M.F. Galdikas
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (August 1996)
Through a Window
by Jane Goodall
Listed under Jane Goodall
Sex
and Friendship in Baboons
by Barbara B. Smuts
Book Description: When it first appeared in the mid-1980s, this book
transcended the traditional ethological focus on sexual interactions by
analyzing male-female relationships outside the context of mating in a
troop of wild baboons. Barbara Smuts used long-term friendships between
males and females, documented over a two-year period, to show how social
interactions between members of friendly pairs differed from those of other
troop mates. Her findings, now enhanced with data from another fifteen
years of field studies, suggest that the evolution of male reproductive
strategies in baboons can only be understood by considering the relationship
between sex and friendship: female baboons prefer to mate with males who
have previously engaged in friendly interaction with them and their offspring.
Smuts suggests that female choice may promote male investment in other
species, and she explores the relevance of her findings for the evolution
of male-female relationships in humans.
Paperback: 336 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x
8.95 x 6.05
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Reprint edition (December
1999)
ISBN: 0674802756
Orangutans:
Wizards of the Rain Forest
by Anne E. Russon
Orangutan
Odyssey
by Birute Galdikas
In the 1960s, the legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey encouraged
a trio of remarkable woman scientists--Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté
Galdikas--to study the world's great primates. In her memoir Reflections
of Eden, written long after her fellow "trimates" published theirs, Galdikas
described her efforts at Camp Leakey to rehabilitate ex-captive orangutans
and release them into the nearby Borneo rainforest.
Those rehabilitation efforts became the center of controversies that
swirl around Galdikas and the organization she helped found, Orangutan
Foundation International. A debate about the effectiveness of rehabilitation
reached a fever pitch in the late 1990s with the publication of several
articles and books about Galdikas by Canadian novelist Linda Spalding.
In A Dark Place in the Jungle, Spalding suggests that Galdikas's efforts
in the name of conservation may in fact harm wild orangutan populations.
Galdikas herself is characterized as an imperious and careless scientist,
which no doubt played a role in Galdikas's decision in July 1999 to sue
Spalding for libel.
What then are we to make of this book by Galdikas and her longtime collaborator
Nancy Briggs? There is no dispute whatsoever about their primary message:
orangutans are seriously endangered. Palm oil plantations, bush fires,
and other intense human pressures are destroying millions of acres of orangutan
habitat. The recently deposed Indonesian government of Suharto was notoriously
corrupt and adopted policies that led to large-scale deforestation, although
its
legacy is treated gingerly by Galdikas, who lives there when she isn't
teaching at the University of British Columbia. The close-up photographs
that accompany their text show orangutans as full of personality, mischief,
and devotion as humans. Perhaps, as Spalding suggests, that's part of the
problem. It may be too easy to project anthropocentric values onto orangutans,
which, after all, share 97 percent of their genetic heritage with humans.
It is difficult to judge either case on its merits since the books share
similar flaws: neither presents notes or bibliography to document its arguments.
So read them both. The gravely threatened orangutans deserve as much attention
as they can get. --Pete Holloran - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 144 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x
11.49 x 10.55
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams; (October 1, 1999)
ISBN: 0810936941
Woman
in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey & the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
by Farley Mowat
The
Year of the Gorilla
by George B. Schaller
Synopsis
Relates the experiences of the author and his wife while they lived
in
Africa for 2 years observing gorillas and other wildlife.
Primates: The Amazing World of Lemurs, Monkeys and Apes
by Art Wolfe et al.
Primate Behavior: An Exercise Workbook
by J. D. Paterson
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Introduction to the Primates
by Daris Ray Swindler, Linda E. Curtis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0295977043
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