Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

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

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.

Subject

• Behavior, Animal
• Bonobo > Behavior
• Bonobo > Ecology
• Chimpanzees > Behavior
• Chimpanzees > Ecology
• Cognition
• Cognition in animals
• Cultural Characteristics
• Culture
• Culture > Origin
• Pan troglodytes
• Social Environment
• Social behavior in animals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ecology, diversity, and culture / Richard W. Wrangham -- Tools compared / W.C. McGrew -- Party size in chimpanzees and bonobos / 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 / Comparative locomotor behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos / 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 A. Huffman and Richard W. Wrangham -- Diversity in social relations / W.C. McGrew -- Social role and development of noncopulatory sexual behavior of wild bonobos / Chie Hashimoto and Takeshi Furuichi -- Grooming relationships in two species of chimpanzees / Yasuyuki Muroyama and Yukimaru Sugiyama -- Reproductive success story / 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 / Kate C. Baker and Barbara B. Smuts -- Chimpanzee's adaptive potential / Frans B.M. de Waal-- Culture and cognition / Frans B.M. de Waal -- Understanding chimpanzee understanding / Jan A.R.A.M. van Hoof -- What chimpanzees (might) know about the mind / Daniel J. Povinelli -- The question of chimpanzee culture / Michael Tomasello -- Biobehavioral roots of language / Duane M. Rumbaugh, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Rose A. Sevcik -- Individual differences in the cognitive abitlities of chimpanzees / Sarah T. Boysen -- Field experiments on use of stone tools in the wild / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Review of recent findings on Mahale chimpanzees / Toshishada Nishida -- Conservation and the future of chimpanzee and bonobo research in Africa / Jane Goodall.

ISBN

0674116623

LCCN

^^^94009080^

OCLC

29953187

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library