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Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale
Toshisada Nishida
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Description for Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale
hardcover. Explores the long-term studies at Mahale, Tanzania and the important insights they have provided into wild chimpanzee behaviour and ecology. Num Pages: 340 pages, 135 b/w illus. 30 colour illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; PSVP; PSVS; PSVW79. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 690.
Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whose studies of these apes at Gombe in Tanzania are justly famous. Less well-known, but equally important, are the studies carried out by Toshisada Nishida on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Comparison between the two sites yields both notable similarities and startling contrasts. Nishida has written a comprehensive synthesis of his work on the behaviour and ecology of the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains. With topics ranging ... Read more
Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whose studies of these apes at Gombe in Tanzania are justly famous. Less well-known, but equally important, are the studies carried out by Toshisada Nishida on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Comparison between the two sites yields both notable similarities and startling contrasts. Nishida has written a comprehensive synthesis of his work on the behaviour and ecology of the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains. With topics ranging ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107015784
SKU
V9781107015784
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About Toshisada Nishida
Toshisada Nishida is Executive Director of the Japan Monkey Centre and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Primates. He has conducted pioneering field studies into the behaviour and ecology of wild chimpanzees for more than 45 years.
Reviews for Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale
'Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore is [Nishida's] swansong to a long and illustrious career, a memoir of sorts written in the form of an accessibly written and very informative monograph about the chimpanzees of Mahale. It is partly history and partly an overview of Mahale chimpanzee behavior and ecology, the story of the animals, their behavior and ecology, and the conservation ... Read more