Animal Social Complexity : : Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies / / ed. by Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack.

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• MitwirkendeR: Boesch, Christophe,; Boysen, Sarah T.,; Bradbury, Jack W.,; Cheney, Dorothy L.,; Connor, Richard C.,; Connor, Richard,; Creel, Scott,; Deaner, Robert O.,; Dizon, Andrew E.,; Drea, Christine M.,; Drea, Christine,; Engh, Anne,; Escorza-Trevino, Sergio,; Evans, Karen,; Frank, Laurence G.,; Frank, Laurence,; Hallberg, Karen I.,; Holekamp, Kay E.,; Hooff, Jan A. R. A. M. Van,; Huber, Ludwig,; Hyde, John,; Jaffee, Stephanie,; Kastak, David,; King, Andrew P.,; Krützen, Michael,; Kummer, Hans,; Mannu, Massimo,; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro,; McGrew, W.C.,; Mcgrew, W. C.,; Mesnick, Sarah L.,; Nelson, Douglas A.,; Nishida, Toshisada,; Nunn, Charles L.,; Ottoni, Eduardo B.,; Ottoni, Eduardo Β.,; Pandolfi, Stephanie S.,; Parr, Lisa A.,; Payne, Katherine B.,; Payne, Κaty,; Perry, Susan,; Preuschoft, Signe,; Pusey, Anne E.,; Reichmuth Kastak, Colleen,; Sands, Jennifer L.,; Schaik, Carel P. Van,; Schusterman, Ronald J.,; Schusterman, Ronald,; Seyfarth, Robert M.,; Seyfarth, Robert,; Taylor, Barbara L.,; Tyack, Peter L.,; Voelkl, Bernhard,; Waal, Frans Β. Μ. De,; Wahaj, Sofia A.,; Wahaj, Sofia,; Wells, Randall S.,; West, Meredith J.,; West, Meredith,; White, David J.,; Whitehead, Hal,; Wilkinson, Gerald S.,; Yurk, Harald,; Zuberbuehler, Klaus,; Zuberbühler, Klaus,; van Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M.,; van Schaik, Carel,
• HerausgeberIn: Tyack, Peter L.,; de Waal, Frans B. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.) :; 49 halftones, 74 line illustrations

For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same prob...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• I. Life History and Brain Evolution
• 1. Life History and Cognitive Evolution in Primates
• CASE STUDY 1Α
• 2. Dolphin Social Complexity: Lessons from Long-Term Study and Life History
• 3. Sources of Social Complexity in the Three Elephant Species
• II. Evolution of Cooperative Strategies
• 4. Complex Cooperation among Taï Chimpanzees
• CASE STUDY 4A
• CASE STUDY 4B
• 5. The Social Complexity of Spotted Hyenas
• CASE STUDY 5A
• 6. Is Social Stress a Consequence of Subordination or a Cost of Dominance?
• CASE STUDY 6A
• III. Social Cognition
• 7. Equivalence Classification as an Approach to Social Knowledge: From Sea Lions to Simians
• 8. The Structure of Social Knowledge in Monkeys
• 9. Social Syntax: The If-Then Structure of Social Problem Solving
• CASE STUDY 9A
• IV. Communication
• 10. Laughter and Smiling: The Intertwining of Nature and Culture
• CASE STUDY 10A
• 11. Vocal Communication in Wild Parrots
• CASE STUDY 11A
• 12. Social and Vocal Complexity in Bats
• 13. Dolphins Communicate about Individual-Specific Social Relationships
• CASE STUDY 13A
• V. Cultural Transmission
• 14. Koshima Monkeys and Bossou Chimpanzees: Long-Term Research on Culture in Nonhuman Primates
• CASE STUDY 14A
• 15. Individuality and Flexibility of Cultural Behavior Patterns in Chimpanzees
• CASE STUDY 15A
• 16. Ten Dispatches from the Chimpanzee Culture Wars
• CASE STUDY 16A
• 17. Society and Culture in the Deep and Open Ocean: The Sperm Whale and Other Cetaceans
• CASE STUDY 17A
• 18. Discovering Culture in Birds: The Role of Learning and Development
• References
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index