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Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Why do gorilla troops move to a new area each day? Why do bonobos sleep in large groups? How do animals in a troop help raise young? Discover the answers in this amazing book and learn about the many ways living in a troop helps animals survive."--
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Peculiar Primates is an adorable picture book with a scientific-and child-friendly-underpinning. With examples of different primates for each description, as well as extensive backmatter explaining the fascinating science behind their behaviors, this bizarre book captures the wonder of our ecosystem"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers₂ snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species...
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