All Apes Great and Small Volume 1: African Apes /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Galdikas, Biruté M. F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Briggs, Nancy Erickson (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sheeran, Lori K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Shapiro, Gary L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Goodall, Jane (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2001.
• Σειρά: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Many of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Third International Great Apes of the World Conference, held July 3-6, 1998 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The editors of this volume, the first in a two-volume series, are world renowned, having dedicated most of their lives to the study...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Issues in Ape and Human Evolution
• African Apes as Time Machines
• Primate Divergence Times
• The Cerebellum: An Asset to Hominoid Cognition
• Bonobos, the “Forgotten Ape”?
• The Status of Bonobo (Pan Paniscus) in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• The Status of Bonobos in Their Southernmost Geographic Range
• Current Situation of Bonobos in the Luo Reserve, Equateur, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Chimpanzees, the Best Known Ape
• Pan in Pandemonium
• Predation of Mammals by the Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
• Representational Capacities in Chimpanzees: Numerical and Spatial Reasoning
• Gorillas, the Greatest of the Apes
• The Status of Gogillas Worldwide
• Twenty-Seven Years of Project Koko and Michael
• Who’s in Charge? Observations of Social Behavior in a Captive Group of Western Lowland Gorillas
• Physiological Bases for Behavior and Aging: Great Apes and Humans
• The Great APE Aging Project: A Resource for Comparative Study of Behavior, Cognition, Health, and Neurobiology
• An International Database for the Study of Diabetes, Obesity, and Aging in Great Apes and Other Nonhuman Primates
• Studies of Age-Related Neuronal Pathology in Great Apes
• Metabolites of Ovarian Hormones and Behavioral Correlates in Captive Female Bonobos (Pan Paniscus)
• Sexual Motivation of Male Chimpanzees During the Female Cycle, Including Preliminary Data on Age Effects
• The Bushmeat Crisis: African Apes at Risk
• Bushmeat, Primate Kinship, and the Global Conservation Movement
• Status of the Proposed Lomako Forest Bonobo Reserve: A Case Study of the Bushmeat Trade
• What Happened to Gorilla Gorilla Uellensis?: A Preliminary Investigation
• Apes, Persons, and Bioethics.