Wild Chimpanzees

Social Behavior of an Endangered Species

Adam Clark Arcadi

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781108195454
• Topic: Biowissenschaften
• Subtopic: Zoologie

As our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees offer tantalizing clues about the behavior of early human ancestors. This book provides a rich and detailed portrait of chimpanzee social life in the wild, synthesizing hundreds of thousands of hours of research at seven long-term field sites. Why are the social lives of males and females so different? Why do groups of males sometimes seek out and kill neighboring individuals? Do chimpanzees cooperate when they hunt monkeys? Is their vocal behaviour like human speech? Are there different chimpanzee 'cultures'? Addressing these questions and more, Adam Arcadi presents a fascinating introduction to the chimpanzee social universe and the challenges we face in trying to save this species from extinction. With extensive notes organized by field site and an appendix describing field methods, this book is indispensable for students, researchers, and anyone else interested in the remarkable and complex world of these intelligent apes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Primates, Apes, and the Study of Chimpanzee Social Behavior
• 2 Seven Long-Term Field Studies
• 3 Chimpanzee Fission–Fusion Social Organization and Its Conservation Implications
• 4 Sex Differences in Ranging and Association Patterns
• 5 Female Social Relationships
• 6 Male Social Relationships
• 7 Sexual Behavior: Conflicting Strategies of Males and Females
• 8 Coalitionary Lethal Aggression between and within Communities
• 9 Hunting, Eating, and Sharing Meat
• 10 Communication: The Form and Content of Signals
• 11 Community Differences in Grooming Postures and Tool Use: Innovation, Social Learning, and the Question of “Culture”
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Field Methods for Studying Wild Chimpanzees
• End Notes
• References
• Index