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Book Monkey or Ape

Download or read book Monkey or Ape written by Susan Kralovansky and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some types of animals look alike but they are not the same! Monkey or Ape? explores the stealthy differences between the two animals. Kids will learn to look at their size, their tails, how they walk, where the live and more. Simple sentences and eye-catching photographs will keep kids engaged. Fun facts will help them learn new things. Step-by-step animal crafts help kids demonstrate what they have discovered with this fun title. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Book Monkeys and Apes

Download or read book Monkeys and Apes written by James Prunier and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of apes and monkeys.

Book  Language  and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes

Download or read book Language and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes written by Sue Taylor Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of articles completely and explicitly devoted to the new field of 'comparative developmental evolutionary psychology' - that is, to studies of primate abilities based on frameworks drawn from developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. These frameworks include Piagetian and neo-Piagetian models as well as psycholinguistic ones. The articles in this collection - originating in Japan, Spain, Italy, France, Canada and the United States - represent a variety of backgrounds in human and nonhuman primate research, including psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethology, and comparative psychology. The book focuses on such areas as the nature of culture, intelligence, language, and imitation; the differences among species in mental abilities and developmental patterns; and the evolution of life histories and of mental abilities and their neurological bases. The species studied include the African grey parrot, cebus and macaque monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, and both common and pygmy chimpanzees.

Book The Social Life Of Monkeys And Apes

Download or read book The Social Life Of Monkeys And Apes written by S. Zuckerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume IV of four in a collection on Comparative Psychology. Originally published in 1932, this study is referred to as a classic, in both historical terms and its usefulness in the study of primates.

Book The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes

Download or read book The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes written by Solly Zuckerman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Gorilla

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Redmond
  • Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
  • Release : 1997-08-21
  • ISBN : 1405360283
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Gorilla written by Ian Redmond and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 1997-08-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their size and strength gorillas are generally docile animals that live in close-knit family groups and as our close relatives provide intriguing insights into our own behaviour. This collection of superb photographs brings their story vividly to life.The book features the world's largest captive colony of lowland gorillas as well as many other primate species. Discover the secret lives of orangutans and chimpanzees how baboons have adapted to life on the African plains and spider monkeys to the rainforests of South America. See how gorillas and chimps have mastered sign languages and how people are trying to protect our endangered primate relatives. Written by wildlife biologist Ian Redmond who has worked extensively with mountain gorillas in Rwanda Gorilla is a unique and exciting introduction to the great apes monkeys and other primitive primates.

Book Gorilla  Monkey and Ape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Redmond
  • Publisher : Follettbound
  • Release : 2000-05-31
  • ISBN : 9780329570606
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Gorilla Monkey and Ape written by Ian Redmond and published by Follettbound. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the world of gorillas and other primates including their social behavior, family life, and intelligence.

Book Monkeys and Apes Coloring Book

Download or read book Monkeys and Apes Coloring Book written by John Green and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-two anatomically correct renderings of primates — chimpanzee, gibbon, orangutan, gorilla, Barbary ape, bushbaby, many more. Descriptive captions, coloring information for each royalty-free illustration.

Book No He s Not a Monkey  He s an Ape and He s My Son

Download or read book No He s Not a Monkey He s an Ape and He s My Son written by Hester Mundis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Boris, the chimp who took a bite out of the Big Apple—and wished it had been a banana: “No one concerned with either apes or people should miss it.” —Peter S. Beagle, award-winning author of The Last Unicorn This book answers the question that is on everybody’s mind: “What’s it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan?” Hester Mundis’s hilarious memoir No He’s Not a Monkey, He’s an Ape and He’s My Son is the complete guide to raising a chimp in the heart of urban America. Join Hester, her husband, their terrifying attack dog Ahab, and the funniest monkey—excuse us, ape—ever to occupy an apartment on the Upper West Side of New York City in this true adventure of woman versus beast.

Book The Psychological Well Being of Nonhuman Primates

Download or read book The Psychological Well Being of Nonhuman Primates written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-11-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1985 amendment to the Animal Welfare Act requires those who keep nonhuman primates to develop and follow appropriate plans for promoting the animals' psychological well-being. The amendment, however, provides few specifics. The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates recommends practical approaches to meeting those requirements. It focuses on what is known about the psychological needs of primates and makes suggestions for assessing and promoting their well-being. This volume examines the elements of an effective care program--social companionship, opportunities for species-typical activity, housing and sanitation, and daily care routines--and provides a helpful checklist for designing a plan for promoting psychological well-being. The book provides a wealth of specific and useful information about the psychological attributes and needs of the most widely used and exhibited nonhuman primates. Readable and well-organized, it will be welcomed by animal care and use committees, facilities administrators, enforcement inspectors, animal advocates, researchers, veterinarians, and caretakers.

Book The Monkey and the Ape

Download or read book The Monkey and the Ape written by Malcolm Penny and published by Garrett Educational. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the world of monkeys and apes, discussing appearance, habitat, behavior, diet, threats to their survival, and efforts to protect them.

Book Gorilla  Monkey   Ape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Redmond
  • Publisher : DK Children
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780789460363
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Gorilla Monkey Ape written by Ian Redmond and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the world of gorillas and other primates including their social behavior, family life, and intelligence.

Book Planet of the Apes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Boulle
  • Publisher : Del Rey
  • Release : 2011-04-13
  • ISBN : 0307792366
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Planet of the Apes written by Pierre Boulle and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original novel that inspired the films! First published more than fifty years ago, Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history. In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth, with lush forests, a temperate climate, and breathable air. But while it appears to be a paradise, nothing is what it seems. They soon discover the terrifying truth: On this world humans are savage beasts, and apes rule as their civilized masters. In an ironic novel of nonstop action and breathless intrigue, one man struggles to unlock the secret of a terrifying civilization, all the while wondering: Will he become the savior of the human race, or the final witness to its damnation? In a shocking climax that rivals that of the original movie, Boulle delivers the answer in a masterpiece of adventure, satire, and suspense.

Book The Song of the Ape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew R. Halloran
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-02-28
  • ISBN : 0312563116
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Song of the Ape written by Andrew R. Halloran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing investigation of chimpanzee language and communication by a young primatologist While working as a zookeeper with a group of semi-wild chimpanzees living on an island, primatologist Andrew Halloran witnessed an event that would cause him to become fascinated with how chimpanzees communicate complex information and ideas to one another. The group he was working with was in the middle of a yearlong power battle in which the older chimpanzees were being ousted in favor of a younger group. One day Andrew carelessly forgot to secure his rowboat at the mainland and looked up to see it floating over to the chimp island. In an orchestrated fashion, five ousted members of the chimp group quietly came from different parts of the island and boarded the boat. Without confusion, they sat in two perfect rows of two, with Higgy, the deposed alpha male, at the back, propelling and steering the boat to shore. The incident occurred without screams or disorder and appeared to have been preplanned and communicated. Since this event, Andrew has extensively studied primate communication and, in particular, how this group of chimpanzees naturally communicated. What he found is that chimpanzees use a set of vocalizations every bit as complex as human language. The Song of the Ape traces the individual histories of each of the five chimpanzees on the boat, some of whom came to the zoo after being wild-caught chimps raised as pets, circus performers, and lab chimps, and examines how these histories led to the common lexicon of the group. Interspersed with these histories, the book details the long history of scientists attempting (and failing) to train apes to use human grammar and language, using the well-known and controversial examples of Koko the gorilla, Kanzi the bonobo, and Nim Chimsky the chimpanzee, all of whom supposedly were able to communicate with their human caretakers using sign language. Ultimately, the book shows that while laboratories try in vain to teach human grammar to a chimpanzee, there is a living lexicon being passed down through the generations of each chimpanzee group in the wild. Halloran demonstrates what that lexicon looks like with twenty-five phrases he recorded, isolated, and interpreted while working with the chimps, and concludes that what is occurring in nature is far more fascinating and miraculous than anything that can be created in a laboratory. The Song of the Ape is a lively, engaging, and personal account, with many moments of humor as well as the occasional heartbreak, and it will appeal to anyone who wants to listen in as our closest relatives converse.

Book Monkeys and Apes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Carwardine
  • Publisher : Ada, OK : Garrett Educational Corporation
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780944483282
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book Monkeys and Apes written by Mark Carwardine and published by Ada, OK : Garrett Educational Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces twenty members of the monkey-ape family, including gorilla, gibbon, bushbaby, and indri.

Book Apes  Monkeys  Children  and the Growth of Mind

Download or read book Apes Monkeys Children and the Growth of Mind written by Juan Carlos Gómez and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations. In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and imitation. Attempts to teach language to chimpanzees, as well as studies of the quality of some primate vocal communication in the wild, make a powerful case that primates have a natural capacity for relatively sophisticated communication, and considerable power to learn when humans teach them. Gomez concludes that for all cognitive psychology's interest in perception, information-processing, and reasoning, some essential functions of mental life are based on ideas that cannot be explicitly articulated. Nonhuman and human primates alike rely on implicit knowledge. Studying nonhuman primates helps us to understand this perplexing aspect of all primate minds.

Book What s the Difference Between   Apes and Monkeys and Other Living Things

Download or read book What s the Difference Between Apes and Monkeys and Other Living Things written by Gary Soucie and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1995-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which would you rather smell, an anemone or a sea anemone? Are conifers always evergreens? Is a peanut a nut that looks like a pea, or a pea that tastes like a nut? Do moose have horns or antlers? Don't know the answers? Don't worry! If you can't tell a turtle from a tortoise, a stalk from a stem, or a wasp from a hornet, you're not alone. Lots of people confuse them, and even scientists sometimes have trouble telling certain pairs apart. Now, well-known science and nature writer Gary Soucie helps you understand the differences between many commonly confused parts of the natural world. Learn how flowers are different from blossoms and why hair isn't the same as fur. Helpful illustrations and fun facts cover everything from five-foot-long salamanders to orchids that look like female bees. So, if you think strawberries are berries and watermelons aren't, or if you wonder how you'll ever learn to tell a frog from a toad, just read this book. You'll enjoy it!