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Apes and babies
Describes the habitat, behavior, diet, and family life of apes and their babies.
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dynamic dance
Using dynamic systems theory, employed to study human communication, King demonstrates the complexity of apes' social communication, and the extent to which their interactions generate meaning. As King describes, apes create meaning primarily through their body movements--and go well beyond conveying messages about food, mating, or predators.
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Camera Traps Document Infant Corpse Carrying Behaviour in Multiple Unhabituated Chimpanzee Populations
Camera traps are an important tool for wildlife research, particularly for estimating species distribution and habitat use. Although they are increasingly used to study animal behaviour, such as tool use and foraging, there are fewer examples of their use in detecting rare behaviours that cannot be predicted in terms of where and when they may occur. Comparative thanatology, the study of non‐human animal responses to death, has demonstrated that examining behaviours such as infant corpse carrying (ICC) can offer valuable insights into animal cognition, including maternal bonds, grief, and levels of death awareness. Here, we investigate the efficacy of camera traps in capturing ICC in four unhabituated chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) populations across West and East Africa, involving a total of 18 chimpanzee communities. We compare ICC detection rates and associated demographic and behavioural data derived from camera traps to published cases recorded through direct observations of habituated communities, the only previous source of ICC reports in wild chimpanzees. Camera traps recorded ICC in seven communities at an average rate of 0.46 cases/year, 2.3 times higher than the 0.20 cases/year recorded through direct observations in 10 habituated communities. The carrying duration in the 10 ICC cases recorded by camera traps ranged from a day or less to at least 28 days (median = 7 days). All 10 ICC cases involved deceased infants with an estimated age bracket between 0 and 0.5 and 2 and 3 years (median: 1 and 1.5 years), and eight out of 10 cases involved a single adult female carrier. Associated demographic and behavioural data support predictions around mother–infant bonds, post‐parturient conditions, and death awareness hypotheses. We conclude that ICC is more common than previously reported in chimpanzees and that camera traps can effectively capture infrequent behaviours such as ICC, making them a promising non‐invasive tool for studying animal behaviour across large spatial scales. We demonstrate the efficacy of camera traps in capturing infant corpse carrying (ICC) in four chimpanzee populations across West and East Africa. Using camera trap data from seven wild, unhabituated chimpanzee communities, we estimate that average yearly ICC rates are over two times higher than those from published records of habituated communities and demonstrate the potential of camera traps for testing hypotheses concerning ICC—including maternal bond strength, maternal reproductive stage, environmental conditions, and death awareness—at a broader scale. Thus, the wide applicability of camera traps offers the potential to enhance our understanding of primate thanatology and the evolutionary underpinnings of animal cognition and emotions related to death.
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The dynamic dance : nonvocal communication in African great apes / Barbara J. King
\"Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens among humans and it happens among our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, the great apes of Africa. Using dynamic systems theory, an approach employed to study human communication, Barbara King is able to demonstrate the genuine complexity of apes' social communication, and the extent to which their interactions generate meaning. As King describes, apes create meaning primarily through their body movements -- and go well beyond conveying messages about food, mating, or predators. Readers come to know the captive apes she has observed, and others across Africa as well, and to understand \"the process of creating social meaning.\" This new perspective not only acquaints us with our closest living relatives, but informs us about a possible pathway for the evolution of language in our own species. King's theory challenges the popular idea that human language is instinctive, with rules and abilities hardwired into our brains. Rather, The Dynamic Dance suggests, language has its roots in the gestural \"building up of meaning\" that was present in the ancestor we shared with the great apes, and that we continue to practice to this day.\"--Jacket.
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The great apes : a short history
\"A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline. This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years. Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology and its key players and events, including well-known long-term field studies, notably the pioneering work by women such as Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutâe Galdikas. Herzfeld seeks to heighten our understanding of great apes and the many ways they are like us. The reader will encounter apes living in human families, painting apes, apes who use American Sign Language, and chimpanzees who travelled in space. A philosopher and historian specializing in primatology, Herzfeld offers thought-provoking insights about our perceptions of apes, as well as the boundary between \"human\" and \"ape\" and what it means to be either.\" -- Publisher's description
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Visually attending to a video together facilitates great ape social closeness
Humans create social closeness with one another through a variety of shared social activities in which they align their emotions or mental states towards an external stimulus such as dancing to music together, playing board games together or even engaging in minimal shared experiences such as watching a movie together. Although these specific behaviours would seem to be uniquely human, it is unclear whether the underlying psychology is unique to the species, or if other species might possess some form of this psychological mechanism as well. Here we show that great apes who have visually attended to a video together with a human (study 1) and a conspecific (study 2) subsequently approach that individual faster (study 1) or spend more time in their proximity (study 2) than when they had attended to something different. Our results suggest that one of the most basic mechanisms of human social bonding—feeling closer to those with whom we act or attend together—is present in both humans and great apes, and thus has deeper evolutionary roots than previously suspected.
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Three little monkeys
Hilda Snibbs lives in a palatial Parisian apartment with three mischievous monkeys.
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Ape
Apes - to look at them is to see ourselves in a mirror. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behaviour and social personalities. The author delves into our contradictory relationship with the ape, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves.
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