Eating Apes.
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 expose details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and As...
| Основен автор: | Peterson, Dale. |
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| Други автори: | Ammann, Karl. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Серия: |
California Studies in Food & Culture, 6.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295100 |
| Резюме: |
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 expose 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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (349 pages). |
| Формат: |
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. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780520938427 0520938429 1282358006 9781282358003 |