Chimpanzee and red colobus : the ecology of predator and prey / Craig B. Stanford ; with a foreword...
Chimpanzee and red colobus : the ecology of predator and prey / Craig B. Stanford ; with a foreword...
Chimpanzee and red colobus : the ecology of predator and prey / Craig B. Stanford ; with a foreword by Richard Wrangham.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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T0388098
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 296 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Richard Wrangham -- 1. Primates as Predators and as Prey -- 2. An African Forest -- 3. The Hunters -- 4. Chimpanzees as Predators -- 5. Red Colobus Monkeys as Prey -- 6. Before the Attack -- 7. Confrontation -- 8. The Impact of Predation -- 9. Why Do Chimpanzees Hunt? -- 10. Predation and...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough - bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say something about primate - even hominid - evolution. This book, the first detailed account of a predator-prey relationship involving two wild primates, docume...
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Chimpanzee and red colobus : the ecology of predator and prey / Craig B. Stanford ; with a foreword by Richard Wrangham.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from N599.88515/1.
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T0388098
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74VvrkQkGdJd
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ISBN
0674007220
9780674116672 :
0674116674 :
9780674116672 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674116674 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674007222
DDC
599.885153
MMS ID
991011413089702626
