Storytelling Apes Storytelling Apes
Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures

Storytelling Apes

Primatology Narratives Past and Future

    • $23.99
    • $23.99

Publisher Description

The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades; the mountain gorillas of the Virungas, chronicled first by George Schaller and then later, more obsessively, by Dian Fossey; various species of monkeys (Indian langurs, Kenyan baboons, and Brazilian spider monkeys) studied by Sarah Hrdy, Shirley Strum, Robert Sapolsky, Barbara Smuts, and Karen Strier; and finally the orangutans of the Bornean woodlands, whom Biruté Galdikas has observed passionately. Humans are, after all, storytelling apes. The narrative urge is encoded in our DNA, along with large brains, nimble fingers, and color vision, traits we share with lemurs, monkeys, and apes. In Storytelling Apes, Mary Sanders Pollock traces the development and evolution of primatology field narratives while reflecting upon the development of the discipline and the changing conditions within natural primate habitat.

Like almost every other field primatologist who followed her, Jane Goodall recognized the individuality of her study animals: defying formal scientific protocols, she named her chimpanzee subjects instead of numbering them, thereby establishing a trend. For Goodall, Fossey, Sapolsky, and numerous other scientists whose works are discussed in Storytelling Apes, free-living primates became fully realized characters in romances, tragedies, comedies, and never-ending soap operas. With this work, Pollock shows readers with a humanist perspective that science writing can have remarkable literary value, encourages scientists to share their passions with the general public, and inspires the conservation community.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2015
April 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penn State University Press
SELLER
The Pennsylvania State University Press
SIZE
6.6
MB
The Ape And The Sushi Master The Ape And The Sushi Master
2008
The Great Apes The Great Apes
2017
Primates in the Real World Primates in the Real World
2015
Exploring Animal Encounters Exploring Animal Encounters
2018
The Moral Lives of Animals The Moral Lives of Animals
2011
Thinking with Animals Thinking with Animals
2005
The Evolution of Gerald Durrell The Evolution of Gerald Durrell
2024
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
2016
Among the Bone Eaters Among the Bone Eaters
2015
Rabies in the Streets Rabies in the Streets
2020
Where Honeybees Thrive Where Honeybees Thrive
2017
The Breathless Zoo The Breathless Zoo
2012
Canis Modernis Canis Modernis
2020
Becoming Audible Becoming Audible
2020