Publication

1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

74,000 words, Guess

Page Count

296 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads880686
  • LibraryThing5491439

Classifications

  • DDC599.885/153
  • LCCQL737.P96 S725 1998

Description

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, documents a six-year investigation into how the risk of predation molds primate society. Taking us to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane Goodall's studies, the book offers a close look at how predation by wild chimpanzees - observable in the park as nowhere else - has influenced the behavior, ecology, and demography of a population of red colobus monkeys.

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Other Editions

  • Chimpanzee and red colobus: the ecology of predator and preyHarvard University Press1998-01-01

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