Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives

Stephen / Hopper Ross

216 pages, parution le 09/05/2022

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This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world's preeminent primatologists-including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal-as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds.Chimpanzees fascinate people for many reasons. We are struck by the apes' resemblance to humanity, as seen in their use of tools and their complex social lives, and we are moved by the threats that human activity poses to them. Our awareness of our closest living relatives testifies to the efforts of the remarkable people who study these creatures and work to protect them. What motivates someone to dedicate their lives to chimpanzees? How does that reflect on our own species?

This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world's preeminent primatologists-including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal-as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds. In addition to field scientists, the book features anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, veterinarians, conservationists, and the director of a chimpanzee sanctuary. Some grew up in the English countryside, others in villages in Congo; some first encountered chimpanzees in a zoo, others in the forests surrounding their homes. All are united by a common purpose: to study and understand chimpanzees in order to protect them in the wild and care for them in zoos and sanctuaries. Contributors share what inspired them, what shaped their career choices, and what motivates them to strive for solutions to the many challenges that chimpanzees face today.Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Jane Goodall
2. Lilly Ajarova
3. Richard Wrangham
4. John Mitani
5. Caroline Asiimwe
6. Anne Pusey
7. Tetsuro Matsuzawa
8. Christophe Boesch
9. Andrew Whiten
10. Melissa Emery Thompson
11. David Koni
12. Tatyana Humle
13. Brian Hare
14. Raven Jackson-Jewett
15. Frans de Waal
16. Elizabeth Lonsdorf
Afterword
Suggested ReadingStephen Ross is the director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. He is a coeditor of The Mind of the Chimpanzee (2010) and, with Lydia Hopper, Chimpanzees in Context (2020).

Lydia Hopper is an associate professor and director of behavioral management at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is an adjunct scientist at and was previously assistant director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo.

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Éditeur(s)	Columbia univ p
Auteur(s)	Stephen / Hopper Ross
Parution	09/05/2022
Nb. de pages	216
EAN13	9780231199292

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