Author: De Waal, Frans; Author: Photographer Lanting, Frans; Performer: Lanting, Frans
1st pbk. ed; Paperback; 75 Colour Plates, 9 B&w Photographs, 9 Maps, Drawi
232 pages
Published: November 1998
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520216512

Primatologist Frans de Waal and wildlife photographer Frans Lanting present the most up-to-date perspective available on the bonobo, the least known of the great apes. 75 color plates.Focusing on social organization, this text compares the bonobo with its better-known relative, the chimpanzee. The bononbo's relatively non-violent behaviour and the tendency for females to dominate males confront the evolutionary models derived from observing the chimpanzee.