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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An Introduction To The Primates, covers 41 species of primates ranging from the 300 gram sized pygmy slow loris to the 200 kilogram sized gorilla. At least ten of these are extremely endangered species, including the Zanzibar red colobus, (filmed in Zanzibar) and the potto, aye-aye, and Drill, all of which occur in less than half a dozen sites in captivity. The tarsier is represented although unfortunately no video is available. The animals are organized...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program is designed to introduce Primatology students to the range of monkeys of the Super family Ceboidea originating from Central and South America. Material on twenty -two species is included, covering all five of the families recently defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
4) Five Species
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three species of monkeys and two apes living in their natural habitat in Africa are compared in this video. The monkeys include the veret, the blue monkey and the black and white colobus, while the apes are common chimpanzees and eastern lowland gorillas.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this video we see the savanna baboons of Africa in various regions of their natural habitat, but with an emphasis on woodlands and forested regions since most other baboon films focus on the open savanna. The video emphasizes various roles filled by animals in a troop with particular attention paid to the range of behaviors seen in males.
8) Macaques
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video presents an overview of the genus Macaca, beginning with a discussion of their place in the primate order and their adaptability. This potential for eating a wide variety of foods and living in both temperate and tropical environments at a variety of altitudes means they are very similar to humans in their ability to exploit a range of habitats.
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Wildlife conservation has both monetary and non-monetary benefits, and the success of conservation projects depends on a mix of economic and biological factors. In Tanzania, the economic benefits of conservation projects have positively impacted the conservation attitudes of local people around the Selous Game Reserve. Option value is a useful tool to measure the potential benefits of wildlife conservation, and expressed preference or contingent valuation...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Chimpanzees Today is an overview of the various roles filled by chimpanzees and the situations in which they currently live. It begins by briefly discussing the precipitous drop in wild populations as well as some of the history of Jane Goodall's research at Gombe, focusing on the discoveries that promoted the use of the chimpanzee model in studying human evolution. It then covers many situations chimpanzee captivity, including the sanctuaries in...
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The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our species
He has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and the origins of language. He is Kanzi, an extraordinary...
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Foot Notes explores the experiences of, first, a woman who lives in a remote area of Alabama. When the author is asked to help with the unnerving intrusion of the animals into her life, an extended adventure begins involving both women, and then with the author on her own.
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Whiskers and Bear were two of the best dogs in the world. They didn't always listen or even try to listen, but they were loyal to a fault, and they were the best of friends. They hunted all of their food, and they protected our animal sanctuary with no regard for their own safety.
14) Elkins Creek
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In 1994, James Patrick Akin made a plaster cast of a giant footprint in the swamps of a rural Georgia county. In the years since, this cast came to be known in the Bigfoot research community as the Elkins Creek Cast. In his book, Akin takes the reader along as he casts the giant footprint and explores the theories behind Bigfoot research and the interrelated nature of the unexplained.
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Burlington County, New Jersey is hardly a place where one might expect to find North American's scary great ape, the sasquatch. The county is directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, and 70 miles from New York City. By contrast, most of the thousands of Internet reports of encounters with the animal occur in places like Oregon and British Columbia. But this book reports 8 encounters since 1980 in Burlington County, all of which appear...
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John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she...
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Amanka is a word from one of the languages used by people living in the rural north west of Uganda. It's a beautiful, rich word that means 'family'. Yet, in the forests and villages of this part of Uganda, and across much of tropical Africa and Asia, families are at war. In the narrowing margins between forest and farm, human and non-human, there is a growing conflict. A deadly conflict.
The Amanka Book Project has been coordinated by writer, David...
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Français
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Dans ce livre, plongez dans le fascinant royaume de la cognition animale. Explorez les méandres des forêts avec les Grands Singes, plongez dans les océans avec les Dauphins, parcourez les plaines aux ctés des Éléphants, et observez le ciel avec les Corbeaux et les Corneilles. Ce voyage éclairant révèle les capacités étonnantes des animaux qui ont évolué aux ctés de l'humanité.À travers des histoires captivantes et des découvertes...
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Ce livre est une exploration immersive de la vie fascinante des lions, offrant un regard approfondi sur leur comportement, leur écologie et les défis auxquels ils sont confrontés. De la stratégie de chasse aux liens sociaux complexes, ce best-seller vous emmènera dans un voyage inoubliable au cœur de la savane africaine. Explorez la vie quotidienne de ces félins majestueux, tout en découvrant les efforts de conservation déployés pour assurer...
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A moving and revealing biography of Norway's most famous chimpanzee.
Julius is a national celebrity, the inspiration behind pop hits and bestselling books.
He's also a chimpanzee, born in captivity but raised in a zookeeper's home after his own mother rejects him. Julius's new parents change his diapers and comfort him when he has nightmares, and their daughters play with him. But soon they must reintroduce Julius to the zoo, a challenging task...
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