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Title: My Family Album : Thirty Years of Primate Photography by Frans de Waal ISBN: 0-520-23615-7 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A loving photographic tribute
Comment: Noted primatologist Frans de Waal has put together a beautifully printed pictorial tribute to primates. In high quality black-and-white photographs, he documents similarities and differences among non-human primates in areas as diverse as play, confrontation, sex, familial ties, and social activities. The accompanying text describes not only the meaning behind the pictures but also, in true de Waal form, how they relate to human behavior. Although de Waal is a scientist, this concise and clearly written book is meant for the lay reader.
De Waal's specialty is the study of non-human primates in captivity, so the majority of these photographs do not show monkeys and apes in their native habitat. Instead, you'll find remarkable close-ups of expressions and interactions that capture moments of the individual lives. Although de Waal is best known for his study of chimpanzees and bonobos, he includes photographs of macaques, capuchins, baboons, and snow monkeys.
This book is a real treat. I recommend it highly for anyone who has an interest in animal life.
Rating: 5
Summary: They're not like us, they're unique
Comment: Frans de Waal's collection of primate portraits covers various species of monkeys in many social situations. Long hours spent with his subjects means that Waal had their total trust when photographing them. Thus, his subjects have a natural, unforced manner that allows their true nature to shine through. Waal's accomplishment, in this occasionally hilarious, frequently touching, but always fascinating collection of photographs is that he transcends the notion that the value of primates lies in how much they are like humans. His texts and pictures reveal them not as inferior versions of homo sapiens, but simply as @what they are: intelligent, sensitive, highly socially evolved creatures. This is a beautiful and fascinating book.
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Title: Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by F. B. M. De Waal, Frans Lanting, Frans De Waal, Frans de Waal ISBN: 0520216512 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Frans De Waal, Frans de Waal ISBN: 0674356616 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes by Frans De Waal ISBN: 0801863368 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Tree of Origin : What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution by Frans B. M. de Waal ISBN: 0674010043 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Animal Social Complexity : Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies by Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack ISBN: 0674009290 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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