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Author Schaik, Carel van.

Title Among orangutans : red apes and the rise of human culture / Carel van Schaik ; photographs by Perry van Duijnhoven.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  599.883 SCH14    Check Shelf
Description xi, 244 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239).
Contents 1. The orangutan paradox -- 2. Planet of the apes -- 3. Homo Sylvestris -- 4. Orangutan heaven -- 5. Arbo-reality -- 6. Party on (and off) -- 7. Life in slow motion -- 8. The dawn of technology -- 9. The culture club -- 10. Triangulating human nature -- Epilogue : living on borrowed time.
Subject Bornean orangutan.
Culture.
Pongo pygmaeus -- psychology -- Indonesia.
Behavior, Animal -- Indonesia.
Culture -- Indonesia.
ISBN 0674015770 cloth alkaline paper
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