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Thinkers of the jungle

Title: Thinkers of the jungle / Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits, Jay Ullal ; [translation into English, Marrie Powell (main text), Michael Scuffil (captions)].
Author: Schuster, Gerd, 1946-
Publication: [Kṉigswinter, Germany] : H.F. Ullmann, c2008.

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Description

319 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 24 x 33 cm.

Summary

Offers insight into the lives of orangutans in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra, including their mental development, the mother-child relationship, and efforts to continue protecting them from death for profit.

Uniform Title

Denker des Dschungels. English.

Alternative Title

Denker des Dschungels.
Thinkers of the jungle : the orangutan report.
Orangutan report.

Subjects

Note

Includes index.

Linking Entry (note)

Published also in German.

Contents

Little Bali's tale of woe : a taste of orangutan reality -- Queen Victoria's abhorrence and the lack of interest of the explorers : the discovery of the orangutan -- Who is this, the "Forest Man"? : description of a little-known cousin of the jungle -- Medication against migraine and malaria : the "green pharmacy" of the ape field botanist -- Seven years of training, five years of mother's milk and eternal ape-love : the sheltered childhood of the orangutans -- Brains, genius, or common sense : what is inside an ape's head? -- Alma and the tin-opener, Unyil's "rope trick" and Uce's love for symbols : encounters with orangutan intelligence -- Ape culture : could this be possible? -- From bushmeat to a 50,000-dollar export article : the history of a genocide -- The oil which nobody knows : the palm oil boom and the end of the last rainforests -- Nightmare and ape apocalypse : a journey to the logger front in Kalimantan -- "Nobody is doing anything!" : the mournful search for animal-welfare activists who give real support to orangutans -- Grand words and nothing behind them : how UNEP helps orangutans -- From Meranti proliferator to orangutan protector : Willie Smits" journey to the apes -- Human beings as climbing teachers and jungle trainers for orangutans : an almost impossible task -- Mawas, the last refuge for the orangutans : why ape protection is also protection for human beings -- So similar and yet so different : the species and subspecies of the orangutan, from Pongo abelii to Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus -- The Pongo pygmaeus Polaroids : how ape female Uce got photos for her "family album" -- Psychograph of a primate : experiences with a thousand orangutans -- The fairy tale of Samboja Lestari : a dream comes true.

Call Number

JSE 13-175

ISBN

9783833146237
3833146230
9780841602854
0841602859

OCLC

224502345

Author

Schuster, Gerd, 1946-

Title

Thinkers of the jungle / Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits, Jay Ullal ; [translation into English, Marrie Powell (main text), Michael Scuffil (captions)].

Imprint

[Kṉigswinter, Germany] : H.F. Ullmann, c2008.

Linking Entry

Published also in German.

Added Author

Smits, Willie.

Ullal, Jay, 1933-

Powell, Marrie, trans.

Scuffil, Michael, trans.

Spine Title

Thinkers of the jungle : the orangutan report.

Other Editions:

Schuster, Gerd. Die Denker des Dschungels c2007 9783833146220 ger (OCoLC)179660793.

Research Call Number

JSE 13-175

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