Chimpanzee Behavior in the Wild: An Audio-Visual Encyclopedia [With DVD]

ISBN-13: 9784431538943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 247 str.

Toshisada Nishida; Koichiro Zamma; Takahisa Matsusaka

Opis

The behavior of chimpanzees is complex and challenging: they can be cheerful, curious, and tolerant while also being capable of cunning, greed, and violence. Until now, there has been no comprehensive glossary with illustrations upon which systematic behavioral comparisons could be based. Combining recent video footage with decades worth of documented across- and within-population variations in behavior, this volume is the first to compile an extensive ethogram of a single species of mammal. The wild chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains and Gombe National Park, Tanzania, have been observed in particular, as well as those at other long-term fields in equatorial Africa. The book describes all aspects of chimpanzee behavior patterns, from locomotion and posture to feeding, facial expression, gestures, grooming, and vocal communication."

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"The Audio-Visual Encyclopedia is a concept created by Toshisada Nishida and his colleagues with the objective of providing video footage for 'an exhaustive listing of behavioral patterns'. ... The ambitious format that he and his colleagues have pioneered in Chimpanzee Behavior in the Wild will be enormously stimulating to researchers on chimpanzees, students of primate behavior in general, and theorists about human evolution, and it provides a resource for teaching that no primatologist will want to miss." (Richard Wrangham, Primates, Vol. 52, 2011)

"This book is the first systematic attempt to comprehensively describe chimpanzee behaviour and document it by use of audio-visual material ... . this volume has to be very strongly recommended to anyone interested in chimpanzee behaviour. This book is a landmark in documenting what we know about the chimpanzee ethogram to date, and will be of considerable use to not only chimpologists, but all primatologists, animal behaviourists, anthropologists, zoo-keepers, teachers, students, and perhaps inform those working on the next Planet of the Apes sequel too!" (Anna Roberts, Primate Eye, February, 2012)

Spis treści

Color Plates.- Methods.- Study Sites of Chimpanzees and Bonobos.- Catalogue.- Remarks.- Glossary A-F.- Glossary G-Q.- Glossary R-Y.- Discussion.