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Title

Chimpanzee cultures / edited by Richard W. Wrangham ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Published by Harvard University Press in cooperation with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-
• Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Description

xxiii, 424 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Bringing together studies of behavioral variation within and among chimpanzees and bonobos - the sibling species of the genus Pan - this book provides the basis for answering such questions. In Chimpanzee Cultures, the world's leading authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos compare the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, and in both captive and wild groups. These distinguished contributors offer the most thorough documentation to date of the remarkable variety of behaviors in these species so tantalizingly close to our own. While demonstrating that both nature and culture play important roles in the behavior of the Pan species, this book affords often astonishing insights into the workings of the individual chimpanzee mind and of chimpanzee and bonobo social groups.

Subjects

• Bonobo > Behavior
• Culture
• Bonobo > Ecology
• Social behavior in animals
• Cognition in animals
• Chimpanzees > Behavior
• Chimpanzees > Ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The challenge of behavioral diversity / Richard W. Wrangham, Frans B.M. de Waal and W.C. McGrew -- Overview--ecology, diversity, and culture / Richard W. Wrangham -- Tools compared : the material of culture / W.C. McGrew -- Party size in chimpanzees and bonobos : a reevaluation of theory based on two similarly forested sites / Colin A. Chapman, Frances J. White, and Richard W. Wrangham -- The significance of terrestrial herbaceous foods for bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas / Richard K. Malenky ... [et al.] --Hunting strategies of Gombe and Taï chimpanzees / Christophe Boesch -- Comparative locomotor behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos : species and habitat differences / Diane M. Doran and Kevin D. Hunt -- Comparative analyses of nest-building behavior in bonobos and chimpanzees / Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohman -- Diversity of medicinal plant use by chimpanzees in the wild / Michael H. Huffman and Richard W. Wrangham -- Overview--diversity in social relations / W.C. McGrew -- Social role and development of noncopulatory sexual behavior of wild bonbobos / 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 behavior / 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 -- 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 -- Biobehavioral roots of language : a comparative perspective of chimpanzee, child, and culture / Duane M. Rumbaugh, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Rose A. Sevcik -- Individual differences in the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees / Sarah T. Boysen.
• Field experiments on use of stone tools in the wild / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- 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.

Call Number

JSE 13-54

ISBN

• 0674116623 (alk. paper)
• 9780674116627 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94009080

OCLC

29953187

Title

Chimpanzee cultures / edited by Richard W. Wrangham ... [et al.].

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Published by Harvard University Press in cooperation with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-

Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Other Form:

Online version: Chimpanzee cultures. Cambridge, Mass. : Published by Harvard University Press in cooperation with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1994 (OCoLC)753428736

Research Call Number

JSE 13-54