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Apes & Monkeys eBooks

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  • Raffles' Banded Langur: The Elusive Monkey Of Singapore And Malaysia

    by Andie Ang, Sabrina Jabbar ...
    Sir Stamford Raffles came across an unnamed new species in 1821 when he was documenting natural history in Singapore. This elusive primate, the Raffles' banded langur, was later named after him. This book is a one-stop resource for everything we know about the critically endangered primate that is only found in Singapore and Malaysia, including its distribution, diet, family structure, infant ... Read more

    PHP1,139.69

  • Monkey Business: A History Of Nonhuman Primate Rights

    by Erika Fleury ...
    Apes, monkeys, and other nonhuman primates have a dual role in modern society. They are revered for their intelligence, uncanny mimicry, and biological relation to humans, yet are often forced to spend entire lifetimes as unwilling participants in the bioresearch, entertainment and pet industries.The treatment of nonhuman primates is evolving as technology improves the way research is conducted, ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Extinction

    The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

    by Juno Salazar Parreñas ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from ... Read more

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  • The Book of Being Chimp

    by Adrian Cale ...
    The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale’s entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring over 100 of the author’s beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee life. The captivating pictures are accompanied by a simple, humorous and engaging text which tells you all about the contrasting lives of chimps ... Read more

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  • Meine wilden Kinder

    Ein Leben für die letzten Orang-Utans

    by Dr. Signe Preuschoft ...
    Tausende Orang-Utans haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten zumindest ihre Heimat, den Urwald oder sogar ihr Leben verloren. Nur ein Bruchteil der "Waldmenschen" kann gerettet werden. Signe Preuschoft betreut Orang-Utan-Waisen in einer Waldschule auf Borneo und bereitet sie auf ihr Leben in Freiheit vor. Hier lernen die traumatisierten Menschenaffenkinder nach Tod oder Verlust der Mutter alles, was sie ... Read more

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  • Kanzi

    The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

    by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh ...
    The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and ... Read more

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  • Creative Evolution

    by Henri Bergson ...
    Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", first published in 1907, provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution included in his theory of the same name.The book focuses on four key steps: that there must be a vital impulse which explains the creation of all living things; that there must also ... Read more

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  • Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

    Edited by Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham, David R. Pilbeam ...
    Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This comprehensive volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain what is unique about humans, by studying their closest living relatives. Their observations and conclusions have the potential to transform our ... Read more

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  • The Chimpanzees of Rubondo Island

    Apes Set Free

    by Josephine Nadezda Msindai, Volker Sommer ...
    How did a random batch of chimpanzees come to populate a small island in Tanzania where apes had never lived before? Combining information gathered from fieldwork, laboratory and archival research, this book tells the unique story of chimpanzee babies taken from their forest homes in West-Central Africa and sold to European zoos and circuses, to then be shipped to Lake Victoria and set free on ... Read more

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  • Florida and the Game Water-Birds

    by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt ...
    Florida and the Game Water-Birds written by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt who was a sportsman, author, and politician. This book was published in 1868. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as ... Read more

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  • Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation

    by Alexandra Palmer ...
    Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation explores how conservationists decide whether, and how, to undertake rehabilitation and reintroduction (R&R) when rescuing orphaned orangutans. The author demonstrates that exploring ethical dilemmas is crucial for understanding ongoing disagreements about how to help endangered wildlife in an era of anthropogenic extinction.Although R&R might appear an ... Read more

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  • Het Leven der Dieren: De Evenvingerigen

    Een verkenning van de diverse wereld van de anatomisch unieke evenvingerigen

    by Alfred Edmund Brehm ...
    In 'Het Leven der Dieren: De Evenvingerigen' biedt Alfred Edmund Brehm een gedetailleerde verkenning van de biologie en ecologie van de evenvingerigen, een unieke groep dieren gekenmerkt door hun opmerkelijke aanpassingen aan hun leefomgeving. Brehm's literaire stijl is zowel informatief als evocatief, waarbij hij wetenschappelijke nauwkeurigheid combineert met poëtische beschrijvingen die de ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of the Yeti

    Exploring the Legend of the Abominable Snowman

    by Ariana Sharma ...
    About the Book-The Mystery of the Yeti: Exploring the Legend of the Abominable SnowmanJoin Ariana as she unravels the mystery of the Yeti, the legendary creature also known as the Abominable Snowman. In "The Mystery of the Yeti," you'll journey with Ariana through the snowy peaks of the Himalayan mountains as she explores the history, cultural significance, and enduring appeal of this mysterious ... Read more

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  • Het Leven der Dieren: Deel 2, Hoofdstuk 01: De Boomvogels.

    by Alfred Edmund Brehm ...
    Ontdek de fascinerende wereld van de boomvogels!In "Het Leven der Dieren: Deel 2, Hoofdstuk 01: De Boomvogels" neemt Alfred Edmund Brehm je mee op een betoverende reis door de weelderige bossen waar deze majestueuze wezens hun thuis hebben. Laat je meevoeren door de levendige beschrijvingen en diepgaande inzichten in het gedrag en de leefomgeving van deze bijzondere vogels.Unieke thema’s zoals de ... Read more

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  • 奥秘世界百科——野人王国地百科

    by 竭宝峰 ...
    本套书全面而系统地介绍了当今世界各种各样的奥秘现象及其科学探索,集知识性、趣味性、新奇性、疑问性与科学性于一体,深入浅出,生动可读,通俗易懂,目的是使读者在兴味盎然地领略世界奥秘现象的同时,能够加深思考,启迪智慧,开阔视野,增加知识,能够正确了解和认识这个世界,激发求知的欲望和探索的精神,激起热爱科学和追求科学的热情,掌握开启人类和自然的金钥匙,使我们真正成为人类和自然的主人。 ... Read more

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  • The Chimpanzee & Me

    by Ben Garrod ...
    Ben Garrod: As seen on TV – Baby Chimps Rescue.'Celebrities blamed for the rise in people keeping primates as pets in Britain' TIMES 2.'4,500 primates owned as pets in the UK' SKY NEWS.'As ownership of exotic pets booms, no wonder experts are asking... conservation or cruelty?' DAILY MAIL.The Chimpanzee & Me is a unique look at conservation of the species and Ben's life-long love of chimps, ... Read more

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  • Ape

    by John Sorenson ...
    Series Book 29 - Animal
    Apes - to look at them is to see ourselves in a mirror. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behaviour and social personalities. In Ape, John Sorenson delves into our contradictory relationship with the ape, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves.From bonobos and chimpanzees to gibbons, gorillas and orangutans, Ape ... Read more

    PHP955.49

  • Jane Goodall

    by Terry Barber ...
    Series series Activists
    Jane Goodall is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language or adult basic education students. As a young girl, Jane Goodall (1934- ) dreamed of going to Africa to live with ... Read more

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  • Man the Hunted

    Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Expanded Edition

    by Donna Hart ...
    Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds. The authors' studies of predators on monkeys and apes are supplemented here with the observations of naturalists in the field and revealing interpretations of the fossil record. ... Read more

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  • Bigfoot

    A Search

    by Leigh Calvez ...
    Series series Studies in Nature
    From a naturalist and bestselling author comes a new look at Bigfoot, focusing on the latest research, theories, and the role of legends in our lives.Whether you believe in Bigfoot as a wood ape or a woo woo interdimensional being—or don’t believe at all—this succinct guide to the most important questions and research surrounding the storied creature has something for everybody. From the earliest ... Read more

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  • Pithecophilia

    One Man's Quest for Ape Encounters Around the World

    by Robert Louis DeMayo ...
    The powerful true story of one man's quest to unravel the mysteries of the world's primates.From the steep slopes of the Virunga Volcanoes to the steamy jungles of Sumatra, Pithecophilia explores author, Robert Louis DeMayo's life-changing search for ape encounters, as he discovers the secrets of their history, biology, and what they can tell us about ourselves.Touching on the efforts of the world ... Read more

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  • Primate Archaeology and Adaptation

    A Study of Nicobar Long-Tailed Macaques in India

    by Jayashree Mazumder ...
    Primate Archaeology and Adaptation offers an interdisciplinary examination of Nicobar long-tailed macaques, situating their tool use, social behavior, and ecological flexibility within deep evolutionary time and contemporary conservation challenges. It documents the ecology, social organization, and behavioral repertoire of long-tailed macaques across Southeast Asia, including foraging strategies, ... Read more

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  • Tree of Origin

    What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution

    by Richard Byrne, Robin Dunbar, W. C. McGrew, Anne Pusey, Charles Snowdon, Craig Stanford, Karen B. Strier, Richard W. Wrangham ...
    How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a ... Read more

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  • De reis van de mensheid

    Wat onze genen zeggen over ons verleden en onze toekomst

    Translated by Ronnie Boley ...
    by Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe ...
    De geschiedenis van de mens is terug te lezen in ons DNAIn evolutionaire termen heeft de moderne mens binnen no time een stormachtige opkomst gemaakt. In slechts een paar millennia hebben wij continenten veroverd, de Noordpool en de woestijn doorkruist, flora en fauna onderworpen en grenzen beslecht. De laatste jaren worden we geconfronteerd met de gevolgen van onze expansiedrift, nu natuurlijke ... Read more

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