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Herding monkeys to paradise : how macaque troops are managed for tourism in Japan / by John Knight.
Penn Museum Library QL737.P93 K55 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, John, 1960-
- Series:
- Human-animal studies ; v. 10.
- Human-animal studies ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese macaque--Behavior.
- Japanese macaque.
- Japanese macaque--Effect of human beings on.
- Wildlife viewing sites--Japan.
- Wildlife viewing sites.
- Ecotourism--Japan.
- Ecotourism.
- Wildlife management--Japan.
- Wildlife management.
- Mammal populations--Japan.
- Mammal populations.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 628 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Summary:
- Sixteen monkey parks in Japan, established in the 1950s, are a popular way for tourists to see and get up close to free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques. Knight (social anthropology and human-animal studies, Queen's U., Belfast, Ireland) offers a detailed study of the management and uses of these parks--for animal display, for scientific studies--and the representation of these parks as a paradise-like environment allowing interaction of humans with wild animals. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Monkeys in paradise
- Searching for monkeys
- Provisioning the monkeys
- Working with monkeys
- Herding the monkeys
- Keeping out monkeys
- Transforming the monkeys
- Restoring the monkeys.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-609) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004187931
- 9004187936
- OCLC:
- 707022973
- Publisher Number:
- 99943946381
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