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Author : Evelyn Gallardo
Release : 1993-03
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Among the Orangutans by : Evelyn Gallardo
Download or read book Among the Orangutans written by Evelyn Gallardo. This book was released on 1993-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and research of Birute Galdikas, prominent expert on the behavior of orangutans in the wild.
Author : Carel van Schaik
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Among Orangutans by : Carel van Schaik
Download or read book Among Orangutans written by Carel van Schaik. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The local people know him as the "Man of the Forest," who refused to speak for fear of being put to work. And indeed the bear-like Sumatran orangutan, with his moon face, lanky arms, and shaggy red hair, does seem uncannily human; one of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the orangutan may have much to tell us about the origins of human intelligence, technology, and culture. In this book one of the world's leading experts on Sumatran orangutans, working in collaboration with nature photographer Perry van Duijnhoven, takes us deep into the disappearing world of these captivating primates. In a narrative that is part adventure, part field journal, part call to conscience, Carel van Schaik introduces us to the colorful characters and complex lives of the orangutans who inhabit the vanishing forests of Sumatra. In compelling words and pictures, we come to know the personalities and temperaments of our primate cousins as they go about their days: building double-decker tree nests; using leaves as napkins, gloves, rain hats, and blankets, and sticks as backscratchers and probes; nurturing their infants longer and more intensely than any other nonhuman mammal. Here are the births and deaths, the first use of a tool, the defeat of a rival, the gradual loss of influence that, while fascinating to observe, may also help us to reconstruct human evolution.
Author : Evelyn Gallardo
Release : 1993
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Among the Orangutans by : Evelyn Gallardo
Download or read book Among the Orangutans written by Evelyn Gallardo. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and research of Biruté Galdikas, prominent expert on the behavior of orangutans in the wild.
Author : Serge A. Wich
Release : 2010-01-07
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 597/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Orangutans by : Serge A. Wich
Download or read book Orangutans written by Serge A. Wich. This book was released on 2010-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations show extensive variation in behavioural ecology, morphology, life history, and genes. Indeed, on the strength of the latest genetic and morphological evidence, it has been proposed that orangutans actually constitute two species which diverged more than a million years ago - one on the island of Sumatra the other on Borneo, with the latter comprising three subspecies. This book has two main aims. The first is to carefully compare data from every orangutan research site, examining the differences and similarities between orangutan species, subspecies and populations. The second is to develop a theoretical framework in which these differences and similarities can be explained. To achieve these goals the editors have assembled the world's leading orangutan experts to rigorously synthesize and compare the data, quantify the similarities or differences, and seek to explain them. Orangutans is the first synthesis of orangutan biology to adopt this novel, comparative approach. It analyses and compares the latest data, developing a theoretical framework to explain morphological, life history, and behavioural variation. Intriguingly, not all behavioural differences can be attributed to ecological variation between and within the two islands; relative rates of social learning also appear to have been influential. The book also emphasizes the crucial impact of human settlement on orangutans and looks ahead to the future prospects for the survival of critically endangered natural populations.
Author : Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas
Release : 1999-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Orangutan Odyssey by : Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas
Download or read book Orangutan Odyssey written by Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas. This book was released on 1999-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this pictorial essay, Galdikas brings to life her work with these shy & endangered red apes. Taking readers to her remote rainforest headquarters, Galdikas draws on Karl Ammann's unparalleled photographs to present intimate portraits of the individual orangutans she's come to know & offers rare glimpses of their behavior in the wild.
