Overview

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the history of political instability in the region, has made their scientific study extremely difficult. In contrast, there are dozens of wild and captive sites where research has been conducted for decades with chimpanzees. Because data sets on bonobos have been so hard to obtain and so few large-scale studies have been published, the majority of researchers have treated chimpanzee data as being representative of both species. However, this misconception is now rapidly changing. With relative stability in the DRC for over a decade and a growing community of bonobos living in zoos and sanctuaries internationally, there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the bonobo with dozens of high impact publications focusing on this fascinating species. This research has revealed exactly how unique bonobos are in their brains and behavior, and reminds us why it is so important that we redouble our efforts to protect the few remaining wild populations of this iconic and highly endangered great ape species.

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Author:   Brian Hare (Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, USA) ,  Shinya Yamamoto (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Kobe University, Japan)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.876kg
ISBN:  

9780198728511

ISBN 10:   0198728514
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   12 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Frans B. M. de Waal: FOREWORD 1: Brian Hare and Shinya Yamamoto: Minding the bonobo mind 2: Takeshi Furuichi: Female contributions to the peaceful nature of bonobo society 3: Martin Surbeck and Gottfried Hohmann: Affiliations, aggressions and an adoption: male-male relationships in wild bonobos 4: Kara Walker and Brian Hare: Bonobo baby dominance: did female defense of offspring lead to reduced male aggression? 5: Elisabetta Palagi and Elisa Demuru: Pan Paniscus or Pan Ludens? Bonobos, playful attitude and social tolerance 6: Christopher Krupenye, Evan L. MacLean, and Brian Hare: Does the bonobo have a (chimpanzee-like) theory of mind? 7: Michael Tomasello: What did we learn from the ape language studies? 8: Zanna Clay and Emilie Genty: Natural communication in bonobos: insights into social awareness and the evolution of language 9: Shinya Yamamoto and Takeshi Furuichi: Courtesy food sharing characterized by begging for social bonds in wild bonobos 10: Jingzhi Tan and Brian Hare: Prosociality among non-kin in bonobos and chimpanzees compared 11: Alexandra G. Rosati: Ecological variation in cognition: insights from bonobos and chimpanzees 12: Josep Call: Bonobos, chimpanzees and tools: integrating species-specific psychological biases and socio-ecology 13: Nicky Staes, Marcel Eens, Alexander Weiss, and Jeroen M.G. Stevens: Bonobo personality: age and sex effects and links with behavior and dominance 14: William D. Hopkins, Cheryl D. Stimpson, and Chet C. Sherwood: Social cognition and brain organization in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) 15: Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: Cognitive comparisons of genus Pan support bonobo self-domestication 16: Hiroyuki Takemoto, Yoshi Kawamoto, and Takeshi Furuichi: The formation of Congo river and the origin of bonobos: a new hypothesis 17: J. Nackoney, J. Hickey, D. Williams, C. Facheux, T. Furuichi, and J. Dupain: Geospatial information informs bonobo conservation efforts 18: Lisa J. Faust, Claudine André, Raphaël Belais, Fanny Minesi, Zjef Pereboom, Kerri Rodriguez, and Brian Hare: Bonobo population dynamics: past patterns and future predictions for the Lola ya Bonobo population using demographic modeling Richard Wrangham: AFTERWORD

Reviews

In Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Brian Hare and Shinya Yamamoto pull together the latest research investigating bonobo behaviour [...], providing an in-the-round view of our current understanding. * Catherine Hobaiter, Current Biology Magazine *

Author Information

Dr Brian Hare is an associate professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University in the United States. Since 2007, he has published over two dozen peer-reviewed empirical papers on the cognition, behavior, physiology, morphology, and evolution of the bonobo. He has studied bonobos in zoos, African sanctuaries and in the wild. His research focuses on identifying unique cognitive traits as well as understanding evolutionary processes that produce them. Dr Shinya Yamamoto is an associate professor at Kobe University in Japan. He has published research on both wild and captive chimpanzees. More recently he began studying the behavior of wild bonobos at the Wamba field site in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His research concentrates on the evolution of cooperation, culture, and understanding others.

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