@article{1479177,
      recid = {1479177},
      author = {Stanford, Craig B., },
      title = {Planet Without Apes /},
      pages = {1 online resource (248 p.) :},
      abstract = {Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we  can live with the consequences of wiping our closest  relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist  Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great  apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and  orangutans-threatens to become a reality within just a few  human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last  links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological  knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them.  The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while  our last extended family members vanish from the planet.  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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479177},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067882},
}