This innovative book challenges the perceived view, based largely
on long observation of artificially-fed chimpanzees in Gombe and
Mahale National Parks, Tanzania, of the typical social behaviour of
chimpanzees as aggressive, dominance seeking, and fiercely
territorial. In polar opposition, all reports from naturalistic
(non-feeding) field studies are of non-aggressive chimpanzees
living peacefully in non-hierarchical groups, on home ranges open
to all. These reports have been ignored and downgraded by most of
the scientific community. By utilising the data from these studies
the author is able to construct a model of an egalitarian form of
social organisation, based on a fluid role relationship of mutual
dependence between many charismatic chimpanzees of both sexes and
other more dependent members. This highly and necessarily positive
mutual dependence system is characteristic of both (undisturbed)
chimpanzees and (undisturbed) humans who live by the
'immediate-return' foraging system.
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