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 As...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterson, Dale
Otros Autores: Ammann, Karl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Colección:California Studies in Food & Culture, 6.
Temas:
Apes > Africa, Central.
Wildlife conservation > Africa, Central.
Ape meat industry > Africa, Central.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.
NATURE > Animals > General.
Ape meat industry
Apes
Wildlife conservation
Central Africa
african apes.
african forests.
american media.
ape populations.
ape slaughter.
asian companies.
bonobos.
bush meat.
central africa.
chimpanzees.
color photographs.
commercial ape meat.
conservation.
consumption of animals.
easy to read.
endangered species.
environmental loss.
european companies.
evolutionary relatives.
expose piece.
extinction.
gorillas.
great apes.
karl ammann.
logging.
nonfiction.
population collapse.
primates.
primatology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (349 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780520938427
0520938429
1282358006
9781282358003
9786612358005
6612358009

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