Chimpanzee politics : power and sex among apes

Author(s)

• Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)

Bibliographic Information

Chimpanzee politics : power and sex among apes

Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings by the author

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Rev. ed

Other Title

Chimpansee-politiek

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In "Chimpanzee politics", Frans de Waal expands and updates his extraordinary account of the daily life of a large zoo colony of chimpanzees in Arnhem, The Netherlands. This new edition - with a gallery of colour photographs - expands our knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour and tells what has happened to the members of the arnhem colony in the past 15 years. When first published in 1982, "Chimpanzee politics" helped establish the now accepted view that the higher animals experience desires, intentions, and even consciousness. Today, his detailed and thoroughly engrossing account - of sexual rivalries and coalitions, of actions governed by intelligence rather than instinct - reaffirms the complex bond between humans and their closed living relatives.

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Details

• NCID: BA38853928
• ISBN:
  • 0801858399
• LCCN: 97044284
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: dut
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 235 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QL737.P96
  • DC21 : 599.885/156
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Chimpanzees -- Behavior
  • LCSH : Social behavior in animals
  • LCSH : Sexual behavior in animals