LEADER 03728nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910828347403321 005 20221108020315.0 010 $a0-674-07166-2 010 $a0-674-06788-6 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067882 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276324 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24437924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756580 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11450814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756580 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10769457 035 $a(PQKB)10749553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301161 035 $a(DE-B1597)178065 035 $a(OCoLC)835789824 035 $a(OCoLC)840446424 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067882 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301161 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10620165 035 $a(OCoLC)923118938 035 $a(PPN)175567395 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276324 100 $a20120712d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlanet without apes$b[electronic resource] /$fCraig B. Stanford 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (262 p., [8] p. of plates )$cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-06704-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPROLOGUE: Save the Apes! --$tONE: Heart of Darkness --$tTWO: Homeless --$tTHREE: Bushmeat --$tFOUR: Outbreak --$tFIVE: In a Not-So-Gilded Cage --$tSIX: The Double-Edged Sword of Ecotourism --$tSEVEN: Ethnocide --$tEPILOGUE: May There Always Be Apes --$tNotes --$tFurther Reading --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aPlanet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans-threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet. Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes' shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction's complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability. Even the most environmentally concerned observers are unaware of many specific threats faced by great apes. Stanford fills us in, and then tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future. 606 $aApes 606 $aEndangered species 606 $aExtinct animals 615 0$aApes. 615 0$aEndangered species. 615 0$aExtinct animals. 676 $a599.88 700 $aStanford$b Craig B$g(Craig Britton),$f1956-$01661742 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828347403321 996 $aPlanet without apes$94017858 997 $aUNINA