Eating Apes.

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Author / Creator:Peterson, Dale.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (349 pages)
Language:English
Series:California Studies in Food & Culture, 6
California Studies in Food & Culture, 6.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212211
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Other authors / contributors:Ammann, Karl.
ISBN:9780520938427
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Summary:Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apeschimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for o.
Other form:Print version: 9780520230903