Eating Apes:
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Main Author: Peterson, Dale (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press 2003
Series:California Studies in Food & Culture, 6
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Item Description: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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (349 pages)
ISBN:0520938429
9780520938427

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