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Author | : Dawn Prince-Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780816521500 |
Chronicles the days of a gorilla family, offering insight into their diet, communication, behavior, and recreation, provoking human introspection.
Author | : A. F. Dixson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Gorilla |
ISBN | : 9780231053181 |
Author | : A. F. Dixson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1985-11-01 |
Genre | : Gorilla |
ISBN | : 9780231053198 |
Author | : Ted Gott |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1780230672 |
Since coming to international prominence in the mid-nineteenth century when English, French, and American scientists first encountered them, the gorilla’s physical resemblance to humans has struck a deep chord. Gorillas quickly came to dominate evolutionary debates and grew prevalent in literature, art, film, and popular culture—they are the focus of movies such as Congo and the inspiration for the video game character Donkey Kong and DC Comics super villain Gorilla Grodd. In Gorilla, Ted Grott and Kathryn Weir provide a compelling and unsettling account of our relationship with these highly intelligent animals as they fight extinction due to habitat destruction, commercial hunting, and disease. Gott and Weir describe how early European observations of gorillas in their native Africa were the genesis of literary and artistic representations such as King Kong. At the same time, gorillas became symbolic of sexuality and subconscious, uncontrolled urges, and influenced theories of criminality. It was not until Dian Fossey’s research in the 1960s and 1970s that many misconceptions about the gorilla—especially their violence—were dispelled. A notable history of the gorilla’s influence on our culture and its plight at the hands of humans, Gorilla will appeal to any animal lover wanting to learn more about this noble creature and its uncertain future.
Author | : Mustafa Haikal |
Publisher | : Animalibus |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780271082165 |
Relates the story of a juvenile gorilla named Pongo, brought to Europe in 1876 and housed at the Unter den Linden Aquarium in Berlin. Examines human-animal interactions and science at a time when the theory of evolution was first gaining ground.
Author | : Michael Tomasello |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-04-09 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0674986830 |
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Tomasello maintains that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partners. Tomasello's "shared intentionality hypothesis" captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking. In order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the group. Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work together and coordinate thoughts. A Natural History of Human Thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognition.
Author | : Bill Weber |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002-12-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0743200071 |
Chronicles the attempts of the authors to protect and study the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, discussing the foundation of the Mountain Gorilla Project as well as the ecological and political situation of Rwanda.
Author | : John Russell Napier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James L. Newman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442219572 |
Gorillas, the largest of the apes inhabiting our planet, have been a source of fear, awe, and inspiration to humans. In this book, James L. Newman brings a lifetime of study of Africa to his compelling story of the rich and varied interaction between gorillas and humans since earliest contact. He illuminates the complex relationship over time through the interlinked themes of discovery, exploitation, understanding, and continuing survival. Tragically, the number of free-living gorillas—facing habitat loss, disease, and poaching—has declined dramatically over the course of the past century, and the future of the few that remain is highly uncertain. At the same time, those in zoos and sanctuaries now lead much more secure lives than they did earlier. Newman follows this transition, highlighting the roles played by key individuals, both humans and gorillas. Among the former have been adventurers, opportunists, writers, and scientists. The latter include real gorillas, such as Gargantua and Koko, and fictional ones, notably King Kong and Mighty Joe Young. This thoughtful and engaging book helps us understand how our image of gorillas has been both distorted and clarified through culture and science for centuries and how we now control the destiny of these magnificent great apes.
Author | : Thor Hanson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-10-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692275009 |
Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world's population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers to develop an ecotourism program for the newly-formed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Thoroughly researched and beautifully told, Hanson's story blends natural history with cultural insight to place the forest and the gorillas in the context of modern Africa. The Impenetrable Forest offers a rare glimpse into the world of mountain gorillas, and the human cultures that surround them. A must-read for anyone interested in gorilla tracking, endangered species, or travel to Uganda.