Among Orangutans
Carel van Schaik
Photographs by Perry van Duijnhoven
In a narrative that is part adventure, part field journal, part call to conscience, van Schaik introduces us to the colorful characters and complex lives of the orangutans who inhabit the vanishing forests of Sumatra. Here are the births and deaths, the first use of a tool, the defeat of a rival, the gradual loss of influence that, while fascinating to observe, may also help us to reconstruct human evolution.
Hardcover 2004
Prairie Dogs
C. N. Slobodchikoff
Bianca S. Perla
Jennifer L. Verdolin
Slobodchikoff and colleagues synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem. By examining the complex factors behind prairie dog decline, we can begin to understand the problems inherent in our adversarial relationship with the natural world.
Hardcover 2009