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Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Origins of Japanese primatology and Kinji Imanishi | p. 1 |
Quest for the missing link | p. 2 |
No familoid exists | p. 3 |
At the beginning | p. 7 |
Lake and forest | p. 7 |
The African ape research party sets out | p. 15 |
Food and feeding behaviour | p. 31 |
Fission and fusion of parties ranging for food | p. 31 |
Dispersal of seeds | p. 42 |
Tastes of food | p. 45 |
Leaf swallowing and bitter pith ingestion | p. 57 |
Hunting | p. 60 |
Scavenging | p. 67 |
Insect eating | p. 71 |
Daily activity rhythm | p. 78 |
Predation on chimpanzees | p. 81 |
Growth and development | p. 86 |
Developmental stages | p. 86 |
Infancy | p. 86 |
Development of feeding techniques | p. 92 |
Food sharing between mother and offspring | p. 94 |
Weaning | p. 98 |
Juvenility | p. 108 |
Adolescence | p. 111 |
Siblings | p. 116 |
Ageing and death | p. 120 |
Play and exploration | p. 125 |
Exploration | p. 125 |
Play | p. 130 |
Locomotor-rotational play | p. 132 |
Object play | p. 137 |
Social play | p. 142 |
Comparisons with human play | p. 153 |
Communication as culture | p. 157 |
Social grooming | p. 157 |
Courtship | p. 167 |
Vocal communication | p. 173 |
Other behavioural differences | p. 174 |
Female life histories | p. 176 |
Foster mothers and orphans | p. 176 |
The extinction of K-group | p. 182 |
Immigrant and resident female relationships | p. 187 |
Infanticide and cannibalism | p. 193 |
Female friendships | p. 197 |
Sexual strategies | p. 201 |
Initiation of mating | p. 201 |
Sexual selection | p. 205 |
Male and female sex appeal | p. 210 |
Male political strategies | p. 217 |
Male intimidation displays | p. 217 |
Alpha males and power takeovers | p. 225 |
Power takeovers in K-group | p. 227 |
Ntologi, unparalleled leader of M-group | p. 236 |
Kalunde's rule | p. 240 |
Ntologi restored | p. 247 |
Ntologi loses again and Nsaba's hegemony begins | p. 250 |
The age of new leaders | p. 255 |
Meat sharing and chimpanzee politics | p. 261 |
Turnover mechanism of power | p. 265 |
Culture | p. 270 |
Chimpanzee culture | p. 270 |
Innovations that spread | p. 271 |
Innovations that failed to spread | p. 275 |
What spread and did not spread | p. 277 |
Human and chimpanzee cultures compared | p. 278 |
Conservation and the future | p. 281 |
The significance of chimpanzee research | p. 281 |
Ecotourism | p. 283 |
Keeping a pristine environment | p. 286 |
Preservation of the chimpanzee | p. 289 |
Postscript | p. 293 |
References | p. 295 |
Index | p. 311 |
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