Compares each great-ape species' behavior in the wild with that in laboratories, examines programs established to protect the great apes, and reviews recent discoveries relevant to the study of animal intelligence, behavior, and man's ...
Explains briefly the evolutionary process of man and ape from a common source and describes at length the behavior of four great apes -- the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon.
A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind’s relationship ...
The Great Apes
The Great Apes are our closest living relatives. Yet, even as we delight and wonder at the superb images contained in this book, these magnificent and intelligent creatures are being pushed slowly and quietly towards extinction.
The Great Apes tells of the evolution, social customs, complex lifestyles and natural habitats of man's closest relatives. A visual celebration of these great creatures, the book contains over 100...
Foreword / by Jane Goodall -- The uncanniness of similitude : wild men, simians, and hybrid beings -- Skeletons, skins, and skulls : apes in the age of colonial expansion and natural history collections -- Apes as guinea pigs : primates and ...
Describes and compares the four great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas through a discussion of their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics.