Chimpanzee Behaviour: Recent Understandings from Captivity and the Forest
By Mary Lee Abshire
Chimpanzee Behaviour: Recent Understandings from Captivity and the Forest PDF 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.
Chapter 1. Handling and Consumption of Vertebrate Prey by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Northern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Chapter 2. Niche Construction and Developmental Bias in Chimpanzees and Gorillas
Chapter 3. Chimpanzee Gestural Communication: Signaling and Meaning from the Chimpanzee Perspective
Chapter 4. Patterns in Chimpanzee Marking and Drawing
Chapter 5. Sign Language in Chimpanzees across Environments
Chapter 6. Relationships between Caregivers and Chimpanzee Sanctuary Residents
