Travels With A Primate

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324890
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chimpanzee Travels written by Dale Peterson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. As with any adventure worth retelling, however, Peterson's detours are as notable as his destinations. With the good-natured fatalism of the tested traveler, Peterson tells of trains and riverboats, opportunists and ecotourists, rain forests and shantytowns as he conveys the pitfalls of going forth on a budget as tiny as the continent is vast. Along the way, we also meet Jane Goodall and several other renowned primate researchers and caretakers. This is travel writing with a purpose, an account that inspires both admiration and concern for Africa's people, places, and natural diversity.

Author : Terry Waite
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281080577
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with a Primate written by Terry Waite and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is Terry as he really is — wise and funny. A good book from a big man. If only he could be the Primate.' John Sergeant ‘A travelogue that is refreshingly irreverent and deeply human.’ James Naughtie From darkest Africa to the darker and infinitely wetter birthplace of John Knox, from the remote expanse of the Alaska Highway to part of the Antipodes that even Bill Bryson could not reach, Terry Waite takes us on a guided world tour in the company of Dr Robert Runcie. Even an archbishop has little control over wars and missed connections, floods and food poisoning. But this Primate sailed majestically through the most troubled of waters, as his companions (including Chaplain Richard Chartres) baled energetically in his wake. Hilarious and affectionate, Travels with a Primate offers an unashamedly nostalgic return to the 1980s. It is a delightful tribute to enduring friendship.

Author : WAITE TERRY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007623761
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with a Primate Signed Copy written by WAITE TERRY and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry Waite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909269163
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with a Primate written by Terry Waite and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sue Boinski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226063393
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Move written by Sue Boinski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution, and costs of travel affect individual and group exploitation of the environment. Most chapters focus on field studies of human and nonhuman primate groups, from squirrel monkeys to Turkana pastoralists. Chapters on other species provide a broad taxonomic perspective. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Jean-Jacques Petter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156956
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primates of the World written by Jean-Jacques Petter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses primate evolution, behavior, and classification, and provides detailed information and illustrations, arranged geographically, on every family and nearly three hundred species.

Author : Alan de Queiroz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465069762
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monkey's Voyage written by Alan de Queiroz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life. In the tradition of John McPhee's Basin and Range, The Monkey's Voyage is a beautifully told narrative that strikingly reveals the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery.

Author : Letitia Farris-Toussaint
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764111631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Trail of Monkeys and Apes written by Letitia Farris-Toussaint and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These unusual and immensely useful volumes combine the best elements of wildlife field guides with information usually found only in tourists' guidebooks. Nature Travel Guides tell readers where to observe animals in their wild natural settings, and provide general information on travel, lodging accommodations, and suggested clothing and equipment to pack for the trip. Each volume features 60 to 80 dramatic color photos, maps, charts, and drawings. Descriptions and advice focus on -- -- The subject animal's life cycle, anatomy, and behavior traits -- Regions around the world where the animal can be observed -- The best times to travel for observing the animal in its natural environment -- Safety measures to protect both animals and their human observersP>Primates -- including great apes, many varieties of monkey, and diminutive lemurs -- flourish in tropical and sub-tropical wilderness areas around the world.

Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623343240
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Walk the Earth written by Seymour Simon and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do lemmings drown by the thousands as they travel to find food? Why do frogs risk death crossing our highways? When polar bears migrate, are they moving across the ice, or is the ice moving them? Seymour Simon and Elsa Warnick team up again to bring to life the fascinating creatures that endlessly search for food, water, and safety.

Author : Alfred L. Rosenberger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118951X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New World Monkeys written by Alfred L. Rosenberger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primates New World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social systems, forms of communication, and mating strategies. Primatologist Alfred Rosenberger, one of the foremost experts on these mammals, explains their fascinating adaptations and how they came about. New World Monkeys provides a dramatic picture of the sixteen living genera of New World monkeys and a fossil record that shows that their ancestors have lived in the same ecological niches for up to 20 million years—only to now find themselves imperiled by the extinction crisis. Rosenberger also challenges the argument that these primates originally came to South America from Africa by floating across the Atlantic on a raft of vegetation some 45 million years ago. He explains that they are more likely to have crossed via a land bridge that once connected Western Europe and Canada at a time when many tropical mammals transferred between the northern continents. Based on the most current findings, New World Monkeys offers the first synthesis of decades of fieldwork and laboratory and museum research conducted by hundreds of scientists.