Mahale: A Photographic Encounter with Chimpanzees

by Gunter Ziesler, Angelika Hoffer, Michael Huffman, et al.

Book Overview

They are our closest relatives--and this large-scale, eye-opening book, with a preface by the world's most esteemed expert on the subject, opens a window onto the endlessly engrossing, sometimes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806958898
• ISBN13: 9780806958897
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Stunning photographs, good text

For those who love chimpanzees, MAHALE is the perfect photographic look into their lives. Most of the 160 pages consist of full-page, glossy photographs of chimps and their habitat, taken in the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania. You'll see a contemplative young chimp dabbling his fingers in a mountain stream, five chimps arranged in a grooming line, a female lounging in her day nest, chimps feeding and hunting, nurturing, playing. Much of their social lives are captured within these pages. Perhaps unfortunately, the accompanying text, while well-written and interesting, is overshadowed by the first-rate photography. The text supplies insights into the lives studied here: diet, social behavior, self-medicating techniques, adaptive behavior, and much more. As with most books about chimpanzees, MAHALE has a foreword written by Jane Goodall. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in chimpanzees and other non-human primates.

BEAUTIFUL

To anyone who loves chimpanzees: This book is wonderful! The pictures are absolutely beautiful! There are even little bits and pieces about researching chimps in the wild. To anyone who doesn't already love chimps: Read this book and you will!