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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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California Studies in Food & Culture, 6 |
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California Studies in Food & Culture, 6
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION; 1 LAUGHTER; 2 BEGINNINGS; 3 DEATH; 4 FLESH; 5 BLOOD; 6 BUSINESS; 7 DENIAL; 8 A STORY; Color plates; 9 HISTORY; Afterword; Appendix A. Saving the Apes; Appendix B. Further Reading; Appendix C. The Primate Family Tree; Appendix D. The HIV/SIV Family Tree; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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african apes |
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african forests |
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american media |
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ape populations |
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ape slaughter |
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asian companies |
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bonobos |
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bush meat |
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central africa |
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chimpanzees |
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color photographs |
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commercial ape meat |
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conservation |
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consumption of animals |
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easy to read |
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endangered species |
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environmental loss |
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european companies |
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evolutionary relatives |
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expose piece |
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extinction |
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gorillas |
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great apes |
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karl ammann |
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logging |
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nonfiction |
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population collapse |
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primates |
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primatology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Apes -- Africa, Central
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Wildlife conservation -- Africa, Central
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Ape meat industry -- Africa, Central
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
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NATURE -- Animals -- General.
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Ape meat industry
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Apes
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Wildlife conservation
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Central Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ammann, Karl
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| LC no. |
2002009715 |
| ISBN |
9780520938427 |
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0520938429 |
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1282358006 |
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9781282358003 |
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9786612358005 |
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6612358009 |
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