Toshisada Nishida

Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore

Natural History and Culture at Mahale

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the long-term studies at Mahale, Tanzania and the important insights they have provided into wild chimpanzee behaviour and ecology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781107015784
• ISBN-10: 1107015782
• Artikelnr.: 34380105

Autorenporträt

Toshisada Nishida is Executive Director of the Japan Monkey Centre and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Primates. He has conducted pioneering field studies into the behaviour and ecology of wild chimpanzees for more than 45 years.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Acknowledgements
References
Index.