Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey, with a Foreword by Richard Wrangham

by Craig Stanford and Richard W. Wrangham

Book Overview

Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough--bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say something about primate--even hominid--evolution. This book, the first long-term field study of a predator-prey relationship involving two wild primates, documents a six-year investigation into how the risk of predation molds primate society. Taking us to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007220
• ISBN13: 9780674007222
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"