The Real Chimpanzee: Sex Strategies in the Forest

by Christophe Boesch

Book Overview

The Real Chimpanzee encapsulates the fascinating behaviour of wild chimpanzees and discusses the differences observed in different populations across the species, and across the many levels of their social behaviour. It explains why sex competition and predation pressures in a forest chimpanzee population made the females of the group highly social and gave the males a high level of within-group solidarity, making them very xenophobic towards outsiders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521125138
• ISBN13: 9780521125130
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"