Böcker av Craig Stanford

"A guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident"--

Drawing on extensive observations of wild chimpanzees' behavior and social dynamics, Craig Stanford portrays a complex and more humanlike ape than the chimps Jane Goodall popularized more than a half century ago-one that plots political coups, strategizes for resources, and passes on cultural traditions to younger generations.

Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.

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.

What the family connection between apes and humans really means