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Gorilla Doctors
by Pamela S Turner
Mountain gorillas are playful, curious, and protective of their families. They are also one of the most endangered species in the world. For years, mountain gorillas have faced the threat of death by poachers. Funds raised by “gorilla tourism”—bringing people into the forest to see gorillas—have helped protect them. This tourism is vital, but contact between gorillas and people brought a new threat to the gorillas: human disease. The Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project is a group of...
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Peterson Field Guide To Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition
by Lawrence M ; Burr, Brooks M Page
There are nearly 1,000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years since publication of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, the number of species has risen by almost 150, including 19 marine invaders and 16 newly established nonnative species. This second edition incorporates all of these new species, plus all-new maps and a collection of new and revised plates. Some of the...
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Primates In Perspective
by Agustin Fuentes, Katherine MacKinnon, Simon Bearder, Rebecca Stumpf Christina Campbell
Adaptation Of a Free-Ranging Rhesis Monkey Group To Division and Transplantation
by J and E Menzel Morrison
The Sign Of Babinski a Study Of the Evolution Of Cortical Dominance In Primates
by John F and Allen D Keller Fulton
Primates Books & Ephemera
Becoming Human
by Tattersall, Ian
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. 1998. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's neat blind-stamp to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 258 pages. Evolution and human uniqueness. . 1st US Edition. Softcover.
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A$20.00
Primate Locomotion
by Jenkins, Farish A. (editor)
New York: Academic Press, 1974. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a slightly edge-worn but very good dust jacket with sunning to the spine.. Pp. xii, 300; numerous halftone drawings of wrists, black-and-white photos of living apes and fossil elements and biomechanical diagrams of skeletons. Publisher's original brick red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, original pictorial dust jacket that is lettered in brown and orange, lg 8vo. This volume presents recent research concerning the...
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A$100.71
Anatomy of the Human Body
by Gray, Henry
Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1969. 28th edition.. A tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xv, (1), 1-1448; 1128 text-figures (mostly in color). Publisher’s original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, thick lg 8vo. This 28th edition is edited by Charles Mayo Goss. According to Goss, the revisions of this edition are probably the most extensive as those that have been made in any edition since 1887. No ownership marks and no signs of use.
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A$46.48
Female Choices Sexual Behavior of Female Primates
by Small, Meredith F
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1996. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with colour photographs and black & white drawings by Andrea S. Perkins. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 245 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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A$20.00
The Orang-utangs
by Kaplan, Gisela and Rogers, Lesley J
St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 185 pages. An intriguing insight into the life of one of our closest relatives by the noted Australian academic. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$30.00
Captivity and Behavior. Primates in Breeding Colonies, Laboratories and Zoos
by Erwin, J.; Maple, Terry L. & Mitchell, G. [Editors]
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 286 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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A$20.00
THE GENTLE GIANTS The Gorilla Story.
by Bourne, Geoffrey H. & Cohen, Maury
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 319 pages; Jacket with light rubbing and wear. The book otherwise well taken care of. .
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A$30.99
Vergleichend- und funktionell-anatomische Untersuchungen an der Vorderextremitat von Theropithecus gelada (Ruppell 1835): Ein Beitrag zur Systematik und Evolutionsmorphologie terrestrischer Cercopithecidae
by Maier, Wolfgang
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1971. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 284; 21 text-figures (line-drawings of skeletal elements and muscle maps), 15 tables. Original printed stiff white wrappers lettered in black, lg 8vo. From the series: Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 527. This volume presents a comparative and functional-anatomical study on the forelimb of Theropithecus gelada (Ruppell 1835). It is a contribution to the systematics and...
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A$30.99
The Evolution of Primate Behavior 2nd Edition
by Jolly, Alison
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.. 1985. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Previous price stamped to front free endpaper and previous owner's blindstamp to title page. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvii,526pp. . 2nd Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
Chimpanzee Conservation and Public Health: Environments for the Future
by Diagnon Corporation; Bioqual, Inc.; Erwin, J. [Editor]; Landon, John C. [Editor];
Diagnon/Bioqual, 1992-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. 11x8x0. Minor cover wear, small corner crease to upper front. Pages unmarked. Binding straight
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A$23.24
The Apes Reflection
by Desmond, Adrian
London: Blond & Briggs. 1979. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$20.00
Snow Monkeys
by Iwago, Hideko (Text); Iwago, Mitsuaki (Photographs)
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1996. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wrappers. Previous owner's blindstamp to Title Page. Wonderful colour photographs. 159 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Softcover.
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A$18.00
A Complete Guide to Monkeys, Apes and Other Primates
by Kavanagh, Michael. ( Introduced by Desmond Morris)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1983. Small Quarto Size [approx 20cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good [Price-Clipped] Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small sticky tape repair to lower DJ spine. Illustrated with Colour photographs with black, white and grey distribution maps. 224 pages. Contains the results of the latest fieldwork and research into primates and describes their physical characteristics, ecology and behaviour illustrating every genus with colour...
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A$15.00
Manipulative Monkeys The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal
by Perry, Susan
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
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A$34.07
A Dark Place in the Jungle. Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo
by Spalding, Linda
New York: Seal Press. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. A Near Fine copy. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 272 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.
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A$18.00
Phylogeny of the Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach
by Luckett, W. Patrick and Szalay, Frederick S. (editors)
New York: Plenum Press, 1975. First edition.. Light sunning to the spine of the dust jacket, a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiv, 483; numerous text-figures (mostly line-drawings and graphs, some black-and-white photos). Publisher's original red cloth, lettered in black on the spine with images of primates printed in black on the front board, pictorial tan dust jacket lettered in red on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the Wenner-Gren Symposium #61 held in Burg...
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A$54.23
Cousins. Our Primate Relatives.
by Dunbar, Robin and Barrett, Louise
London: BBC Books. 2000. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 240 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$20.00
The Amphibia of the Indo-Australian Archipelago
by Kampen, P. N. van
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1923. First edition.. Light browning to front wrapper and to half-title page; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xii, 304 pp., with 29 text illustrations of amphibians (fine line-drawings). Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, original printed pale green wrappers bound in place, lg 8vo. This is van Kampen's most important work. It documents the amphibians of the Dutch East Indies today known as the island nation of Indonesia. According to Adler...
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A$271.15
Orangutans (WorldLife Library)
by Shumaker, Robert
St Paul, MN: Voyageur Press. 2007. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial covers. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Previous owner's blindstamp to title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 72 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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A$18.00
The Impenetrable Forest
by Hanson, Thor
New York: Writer's Showcase. 2001. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 264 pages. The author's account of his time, developing a gorilla tourism project in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, in remote southwest Uganda. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.
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A$25.00
Primate Societies: Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation
by Hans Kummer
New. In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing that all activity is constituted in part of genetic programming and in part of adaptive behavior, he explores the borderline area between the genetic and the "cultural." By use...
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A$84.04
Samba and the Monkey Mind
by Williams, Leonard
London: Quality Book Club. 1965. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 144 pages. An affection study of a family of woolly monkeys. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.
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A$15.00
Goma, the baby gorilla: An account of the first gorilla born in Europe
by Lang, Ernst M
Victor Gollancz, London, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Dust jacket is price clipped, and slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine. Internally clean, free of annotation. Introduction by Gerald Durrell, illustrated with 56 black-and-white photographs – mainly full-page. A first insight, for amateur and professional is a well-adjusted delight, into the growth and behaviour of this highly developed species of animal; a delightful book for everyone...
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A$15.02
In the Shadow of Man
by Goodall, Jane van Lawick
Dell, 1972-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0 Paperback - Chips - Binding weak at photos
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A$9.22
Excuse My Tail; The Story of Peter the Rhesus Monkey
by Smythe, R. H
Country Life Limited; London., 1963. First impression. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Good in like dust jacket. 8vo. 8 3/4".. Illustrated by Edward Osmond.. Good in like dust jacket. DJ price-clipped with light wear. Neatly penned gift inscription to free front endpaper. Light toning to endpapers. 90pp.
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A$11.63
