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Menacing Chimpanzees

Author : Mary Molly Shea
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 148244920X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Menacing Chimpanzees written by Mary Molly Shea and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apes called chimpanzees are closely related to humans. These intelligent primates share many characteristics with their human counterparts, including sympathy, grief, and curiosity. They can solve problems and even use some tools. They also share another feature with us: they can be dangerous. Chimps are known to attack each other, and even people, with deadly results. This book answers why these mostly gentle creatures can turn violent and the dangers they face in their native habitats that have led to their endangered status. Arresting photographs and stunning facts make this high-interest volume especially appealing.

Language Learning by a Chimpanzee

Author : Duane M Rumbaugh
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483272508
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Language Learning by a Chimpanzee written by Duane M Rumbaugh and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Learning by a Chimpanzee: The Lana Project brings together several disciplinary endeavors, such as primatology, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, computer and information sciences, and neurosciences. This book is composed of two sets of data—one relates to language learning in the chimpanzee, while the other deals with language construction by Homo sapiens. The fundamental issue of mind-brain dualism and difference between man and beast are also covered. This text mainly describes the LANA project that aims to develop a computer-based language training system for investigation into the possibility that chimpanzees may have the capacity to acquire human-type language. This publication is recommended for biologists, specialists, and researchers conducting work on language learning in nonhuman primates.

MANIPULATIVE MONKEYS

Author : Susan PERRY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042042
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book MANIPULATIVE MONKEYS written by Susan PERRY and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Perry and Manson have followed four generations of capuchins. The authors describe behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: competition and cooperation, jockeying for position and status, peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork.

Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes

Author : John Chadwick-Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863778216
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (782 download)

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Book Synopsis Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes by : John Chadwick-Jones

Download or read book Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes written by John Chadwick-Jones and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this text is to draw attention to the exciting progress of contemporary studies of the social psychology of monkeys and apes. It is written with a clear style which should invite interest from a wide range of social scientists. The relatedness of humans and non-human primates that is usually considered in its genetic forms is followed through into the complex social tactics of monkeys and apes. The focus of the book is on the latest research as it has developed out of earlier classic studies. The current wave of researchers working on social topics is especially emphasised. This book will be of particular interest to primatologists, ethologists, anthropologists, zoologists, social psychologists, and students of social cognition and social interaction. For students, the appendices provide useful information on the variety of social structures of Old World and New World monkeys and apes.

Reaching Into Thought

Author : Anne E. Russon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521644969
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Reaching Into Thought written by Anne E. Russon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates current field and theoretical information on great ape cognition.

Chimpanzee Travels

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324890
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Chimpanzee Travels written by Dale Peterson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. As with any adventure worth retelling, however, Peterson's detours are as notable as his destinations. With the good-natured fatalism of the tested traveler, Peterson tells of trains and riverboats, opportunists and ecotourists, rain forests and shantytowns as he conveys the pitfalls of going forth on a budget as tiny as the continent is vast. Along the way, we also meet Jane Goodall and several other renowned primate researchers and caretakers. This is travel writing with a purpose, an account that inspires both admiration and concern for Africa's people, places, and natural diversity.

The Primate Mind

Author : Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674058046
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Primate Mind written by Frans B. M. de Waal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒMonkey see, monkey doÓ may sound simple, but how an individual perceives and processes the behavior of another is one of the most complex and fascinating questions related to the social life of humans and other primates. In The Primate Mind, experts from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, cooperative behavior, and empathy. In the past, there has been a tendency to ask all-or-nothing questions, such as whether primates possess a theory of mind, have self-awareness, or have culture. A bottom-up approach asks, rather, what are the underlying cognitive processes of such capacities, some of which may be rather basic and widespread. Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists use methods ranging from developmental psychology to neurophysiology and neuroimaging to explore these evolutionary foundations. A good example is mirror neurons, first discovered in monkeys but also assumed to be present in humans, that enable a fusing between oneÕs own motor system and the perceived actions of others. This allows individuals to read body language and respond to the emotions of others, interpret their actions and intentions, synchronize and coordinate activities, anticipate the behavior of others, and learn from them. The remarkable social sophistication of primates rests on these basic processes, which are extensively discussed in the pages of this volume.

The Praeger Handbook of Learning and the Brain

Author : Sheryl Feinstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036659
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Praeger Handbook of Learning and the Brain written by Sheryl Feinstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 100 entries describe current brain research as it relates to education, as well as the relationship between the brain and learning and instructional strategies. Over 100 expert authors contributed to this work, covering the cognitive, social/emotional, and physical aspects of learning as the brain develops. Topics include: brain development, learning, curriculum, at-risk, classroom management, culture, emotion, foods, intelligence, learning environments, learning challenges, learning theories, physical movement. Focus is on K-12 education, but the books also offer information on the pre-school and adult learner. Cross references and recommended readings conclude each entry. Supplemental reference sources include a glossary devoted to the brain and an extensive bibliography. Ideal for educators, parents and teachers, this encyclopedia provides a wealth of knowledge about why educational experiences are structured the way they are and how this helps students learn more. Cognitive neuroscience and its practical use in education provides much of the research for this book, however, the entries are written at a level appropriate for a general reader.

From the Brain to the Classroom

Author : Sheryl Feinstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610695402
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book From the Brain to the Classroom written by Sheryl Feinstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplying a foundation for understanding the development of the brain and the learning process, this text examines the physical and environmental factors that influence how we acquire and retain information throughout our lives. The book also lays out practical strategies that educators can take directly into the classroom. Comprising more than 100 entries, From the Brain to the Classroom: The Encyclopedia of Learning gathers experts in the fields of education, neuroscience, and psychology to examine how specific areas of the brain work in thought processes, and identifies how educators can apply what neuroscience has discovered to refine their teaching and instructional techniques. The wide range of subjects—organized within the main categories of student characteristics, classroom instructional topics, and learning challenges—include at-risk behaviors; cognitive neuroscience; autism; the lifespan of the brain, from prenatal brain development to the aging brain; technology-based learning tools; and addiction. Any reader who is interested in learning about how the brain works and how it relates to everyday life will find this work fascinating, while educators will find this book particularly helpful in validating or improving their teaching methods to increase academic achievement.

Vanishing Coup

Author : Ivan Perkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442222727
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Coup written by Ivan Perkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful and engaging book offers the first extended analysis of coups, a central factor shaping world history and politics. Ivan Perkins introduces a new theory to explain why a military coup or revolution is such an unthinkable prospect in advanced democracies. Focusing especially on the first three coup-free states—the Venetian Republic, Great Britain, and the United States—the book traces the evolutionary origins of political violence and the historical rise of republican government. Perkins concludes with a new explanation for the “democratic peace” and shows why coup-free states form enduring alliances.

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Author : Nicolas Langlitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204268
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Chimpanzee Culture Wars written by Nicolas Langlitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge—and thus possess culture? The subsequent debate has rocked the scientific world, pitting cultural anthropologists against evolutionary anthropologists, field biologists against experimental psychologists, and scholars from Asia against their colleagues in Europe and North America. In Chimpanzee Culture Wars, the first ethnographic account of the battle, anthropologist Nicolas Langlitz presents first-hand observations gleaned from months spent among primatologists on different sides of the controversy. Langlitz travels across continents, from field stations in the Ivory Coast and Guinea to laboratories in Germany and Japan. As he compares the methods and arguments of the different researchers he meets, he also considers the plight of cultural primatologists as they seek to document chimpanzee cultural diversity during the Anthropocene, an era in which human culture is remaking the planet. How should we understand the chimpanzee culture wars in light of human-caused mass extinctions? Capturing the historical, anthropological, and philosophical nuances of the debate, Chimpanzee Culture Wars takes us on an exhilarating journey into high-tech laboratories and breathtaking wilderness, all in pursuit of an answer to the question of the human-animal divide.

Imperiled Whiteness

Author : Penelope Ingram
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149684551X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Imperiled Whiteness written by Penelope Ingram and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white nationalism and neo-Nazi movements in the Obama-to-Trump era. As politicians on the right stoked anxieties about whites “losing ground” and “being left behind,” media platforms turned whiteness into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace. Reading popular film and television franchises (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and The Walking Dead) through political flashpoints, such as debates over immigration reform, gun control, and Black Lives Matter protests, Ingram reveals how media cultivated feelings of white vulnerability and loss among white consumers. By exploring the convergence of entertainment, news, and social media in a digital networked environment, Ingram demonstrates how media’s renewed attention to “imperiled whiteness” enabled and sanctioned the return of overt white supremacy exhibited by alt-right groups in the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and the Capitol riots in 2021.

Bonobos

Author : Brian Hare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191044202
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bonobos written by Brian Hare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the history of political instability in the region, has made their scientific study extremely difficult. In contrast, there are dozens of wild and captive sites where research has been conducted for decades with chimpanzees. Because data sets on bonobos have been so hard to obtain and so few large-scale studies have been published, the majority of researchers have treated chimpanzee data as being representative of both species. However, this misconception is now rapidly changing. With relative stability in the DRC for over a decade and a growing community of bonobos living in zoos and sanctuaries internationally, there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the bonobo with dozens of high impact publications focusing on this fascinating species. This research has revealed exactly how unique bonobos are in their brains and behavior, and reminds us why it is so important that we redouble our efforts to protect the few remaining wild populations of this iconic and highly endangered great ape species.

The Mentality of Apes

Author : Wolfgang Kohler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351294946
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Mentality of Apes written by Wolfgang Kohler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Koehler demonstrated that chimpanzees could solve problems by applying insight. His research showed that the intellectual gap between humans and chimpanzees was much narrower than previously thought. The work was revolutionary when originally published in 1917 in German, but it was largely ignored for decades because it violated the conventional wisdom that animal behavior is simply the result of instinct or conditioning. However, Koehler's research showed this was not the case. He used four chimps in his experiments, Chica, Grande, Konsul, and Sultan. The experiments consisted of placing chimpanzees in an enclosed area and presenting them with a desired object that was out of reach. In one experiment, Koehler placed bananas outside Sultan's cage and two bamboo sticks inside his cage which needed to be put together to reach the bananas. Koehler demonstrated the solution to Sultan by putting his fingers into the end of one of the sticks. After some contemplation, Sultan put the two sticks together and was able to reach the bananas. As Jaan Valsiner shows in his introduction to this classic work, Koehler's analysis of the intelligence of apes marked a turning point in the psychology of thinking and the continuing struggle between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Koehler achieved his two-fold aim: to determine the relationship between the intellectual capacity of higher primates and man, and to gain insight into the nature of intelligent acts.

In the Shadow of Man

Author : Jane Goodall
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297865374
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Man written by Jane Goodall and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal classic' TIME Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa. It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy.

Honey Bees

Author : N. Nagaraja
Publisher : MJP Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honey Bees written by N. Nagaraja and published by MJP Publisher. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which has gathered an accessible knowledge, no doubt would serve at first place for beekeepers in southeast Asia, and also for beekeepers and bee scientists all over the world.The book Honeybees: Diseases, Parasites, Pests, Predators and their Management is a new approach in understanding the diseases, parasites, pests, predators and their management in honeybee colonies.It contains an up-to-date information that would serve bee researchers and beekeepers to treat their bee colonies in the right way against pests and diseases. This book would be read by students and researchers in A picuture and beekeepers. It abridges our knowledge on honeybee pathology to keep Dr. Dorothea Brueckner Associate Professor, For schungsstelle fur Bienenkunde Universitaet Bremen, Germany Honeybees are eusocial, beneficial and eco-friendly all through their eventful and fruitful life. Despite being harmless and true social, they are afflicted by several pests, parasites and diseases. In this context, the book Honeybees: Diseases, Parasites, Pests, Predators and their Management for the first time presents an excellent account of various enemies and their management in all principal species of honeybees. It is indispensable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers, and serves reading and reference as well. Management strategies recommended for Prof. C. Chandrasekhara Reddy Former Chairman, Department of Zoology

From Miracle to Menace

Author : David Yager
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525545175
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book From Miracle to Menace written by David Yager and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A miracle. Coal, oil and natural gas, the carbon-based fossil fuels that powered the Industrial Revolution and civilization’s rapid advancement. A menace. Climate change has how convinced many that carbon emissions are the world’s greatest challenge. The necessity and benefits of decarbonizing the global industrial and energy complex are well articulated. What is not explained is this will require the largest financial disruption in history, affecting everyone and everything. For over a century Alberta’s massive carbon resources have supported Alberta and Canada financially, helping make Canada the world’s fifth-largest oil and gas producer. Carbon has been a major driver of prosperity, employment and opportunity, shaping the country we know today. However, climate change is creating enormous challenges for Alberta - and Canada - with no possible outcomes that will satisfy all stakeholders. Alberta has become ground zero for the changes many demand but few are willing to pay for. As the province demonstrates what carbon’s future looks and feels like, unless the rest of the world participates Alberta has become a needless sacrifice. From Miracle to Menace explains how Alberta came to be, the enormity of the planned financial dislocation, and how Alberta, and Canada, can meet the climate challenge without committing economic suicide.