Description
Chimpanzee Behaviour: Recent Understandings from Captivity and the Forest brings diverse topics together in one volume. It presents new data from chimpanzee hunting behaviour and tool use in the forest. It covers gestural communication in free-living populations and sign language communication in captive individuals. It presents research in chimpanzee artwork including numerous images. Finally it provides a framework for care in captivity with a humane approach. Although social learning of novel behaviors has been documented in captivity, critics argue that these findings lack ecological validity and therefore may not be relevant for understanding the evolution of culture. This ebook fills the gap and reinforces recently published research that tends to show the importance of environmental enrichments to reduce abnormal behaviours in chimpanzees, with the housing of individuals in (semi-) natural social groups thought to be the most successful of these. 214 p.
Series: Animal Science, Issues and Research
- Mary Lee Abshire Jensvold, Editor. PhD; Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (USA).
- Publication date (digital version): 2019-06 – Nova Science Publishers.
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