Benjamin B. Beck
Published: 2001-08-17
Total Pages: 424
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The outgrowth of a workshop held at the Disney Institute in Lake Buena Vista, FL, in June 1998, this volume explores concerns related to the welfare of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans held in captivity for breeding programs and other purposes. The contributors--field biologists, academic scientists, zoo professionals, psychologists, sociologists, ethicists, and legal scholars--consider apes in the wild and in captivity, examining the social division between apes and humans from historical, evolutionary, and cognitive perspectives and reviewing the current moral and legal status of great apes as well as how apes' cognitive skills inform these issues. Foreword by Jane Gooddall. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.