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Savannah lives : animal life and human evolution in Africa / Staffan Ulfstrand ; translated by Cheryl Jones Fur.
Van Pelt Library QH541.5.P7 U44 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ulfstrand, Staffan, 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Savanna ecology--Africa.
- Savanna ecology.
- Savanna animals.
- Africa.
- Savanna animals--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Swedish.
- Contents:
- 1. The curtain rises on the final act 1
- 2. A significant digression 5
- 3. Formation of the savannah 11
- The birth of Africa 11
- Savannah origins 13
- Three kinds of savannah 19
- Water 23
- Fire 25
- The savannah's underground culture 28
- Herbivores and vegetation 34
- Paradise in peril 44
- 4. Pillars of the earth 51
- 5. The long reach of a giraffe's neck 74
- 6. Savannah ruminants: five different lifestyles 86
- Pathway through the stomach 86
- Buffalo: life in a herd 88
- Impala: the perfect antelope 94
- Dik-dik: two by two 99
- Wildebeest and grass 105
- Springboks in the land of thirst 113
- Magnificent diversity 120
- 7. Sapphire in the sand 127
- 8. Masculine mothers in moderate collusion 139
- 9. Lion prides
- nursery schools and death patrols 151
- 10. Baboon thoughts 165
- 11. War and peace, crime and punishment in chimpanzee society 176
- 12. Bonobos: 'make love, not war' 192
- 13. Humans
- marked for life 195
- Down from the family tree 195
- Enter humans 198
- Flight from the rainforest 209
- Footprints at Laetoli 214
- By the sweat of one's brow 217
- The most important thing 219
- The group: individual life insurance 226
- Status, prestige
- and loss of face 234
- Machiavelli's darker and lighter sides 238
- With eyes sensitive to green 241
- Tools of stone 245
- Delicious meat 249
- Chattering humans 253
- Family problems 259
- Human nature 265
- 14. Small steps, long journey 277
- Cameos of the key species 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198509251
- OCLC:
- 57713367
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