Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna - Paperback
by Jill Pruetz
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226837512ISBN-10:226837513UPC:9780226837512Book Category:Science, NatureBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, AnimalsBook Topic:Zoology, PrimatesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCZ95JVZP5
Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna
A moving story of survival and an eye-opening introduction to an extraordinary community of chimps and people. Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools, seeking out tiny bush babies with wooden spears. Unlike most other chimps, these apes fear neither water nor fire, using shallow pools to cool off in the Senegalese...
Series: Animal Lives
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226837512ISBN-10:226837513UPC:9780226837512Book Category:Science, NatureBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, AnimalsBook Topic:Zoology, PrimatesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCZ95JVZP5
Jill Pruetz is professor of anthropology at Texas State University. She has studied primates in Kenya, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, and Peru, and, since 2001, has been the principal investigator of the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project in Senegal. She is the author of The Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervets in Kenya as well as the children's book You Can Be a Primatologist.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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