Planet without apes [electronic resource] / Craig B. Stanford.

9780674067882 electronic book
0674067045
9780674067042

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (262 p.) : ill.

QL737.P96 S733 2012eb

599.88

"Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes' shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction's complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability. Even the most environmentally concerned observers are unaware of many specific threats faced by great apes. Stanford fills us in, and then tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future."--Jacket.

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