Eating Apes
Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apeschimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and comple…
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- Full title :Eating Apes.
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Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apeschimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for o.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (349 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520938427, 0520938429, 1282358006, 9781282358003, 9786612358005, 6612358009
- oclc:ocn609850033
- LC Classification:QL737.P96P463 2003
- Dewey Decimal:333.95980967
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION; 1 LAUGHTER; 2 BEGINNINGS; 3 DEATH; 4 FLESH; 5 BLOOD; 6 BUSINESS; 7 DENIAL; 8 A STORY; Color plates; 9 HISTORY; Afterword; Appendix A. Saving the Apes; Appendix B. Further Reading; Appendix C. The Primate Family Tree; Appendix D. The HIV/SIV Family Tree; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.
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