Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
The great apes, like humans, can recognize themselves in mirrors. They communicate by sound  and gesture, form bands along what can only be called political lines, and sometimes engage in what is very  clearly organized warfare. (Less frequently, too, they practice cannibalism.) InChimpanzee PoliticsFrans de Waal, a longtime student of simian behavior, analyzes the behavior of a captive tribe of  chimpanzees, comparing its actions with those of ape societies in the wild. What he finds is often not  pleasant: chimps seem capable of astonishing deviousness and savagery, which has obvious implications  for the behavior their human cousins sometimes exhibit.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.