Chimpanzee politics

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"This extraordinary account of schmoozing, scheming, and consensus building among the chimpanzees of a large zoo colony in Arnhem, The Netherlands, attracted attention.". "Throughout this revised edition - which features a new gallery of color photographs along with a new introduction and epilogue - de Waal expands and updates his story of the Arnhem colony and its continuing political upheavals. We learn the fate of many memorable characters and meet the colony's current leaders and their allies. The new edition remains a detailed and thoroughly engrossing account - of sexual rivalries and coalitions, of actions governed by intelligence rather than instinct - and it reaffirms the complex bond between humans and their closest living relatives. As we watch the chimpanzees of Arnhem behave in ways we recognize from Machiavelli (and from the nightly news), de Waal reminds us again that the roots of politics are older than humanity."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Behavior,  Chimpanzees,  Sexual behavior in animals,  Social behavior in animals,  Mammals,  Sexual ethics,  Zoo animals,  Burgers Dierenpark (Arnhem),  Pan troglodytes,  Sexualbehavior in animals,  Apes,  Animal societies,  Burgers Dierenpark (Arnhem, Netherlands),  Netherlands,  Arnhem,  Primates,  Chimpanzé,  Comportement social,  * éthologie,  Mœurs et comportement,  Comportement social chez les animaux,  Comportement sexuel chez les animaux,  Chimpanzés,  Moeurs et comportement,  Comportement social des animaux,  Éthologie