Primates

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"Wliat a treat! PRIMATES: THE WORLD OF LEMURS, MONKEYS, AND APES
not only illustrates more than one hundred species in two hundred superb photos, but reveals some of the most recently discovered and extremely rare. It is both fascinating and moving to gaze at so many strange, often strangely beautiful, faces and figures built to the same general plan as our own. That this is the first book on primates so richly illustrated reflects the exceptional difficulty of finding and photographing our disappearing distant kin."
—WILLIAM CONWAY,
President,
Wildlife Conservation Society
Internationally renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe teamed up with biologist and primate expert Barbara Sleeper to create this fascinating portrait of Earth's vanishing primates. An incredible visual journey for all who love wildlife and nature, especially anyone curious about humankind's evolutionary heritage, PRIMATES offers a rare gUmpse of the gorillas, monkeys, apes, and other... Tovább

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"Wliat a treat! PRIMATES: THE WORLD OF LEMURS, MONKEYS, AND APES
not only illustrates more than one hundred species in two hundred superb photos, but reveals some of the most recently discovered and extremely rare. It is both fascinating and moving to gaze at so many strange, often strangely beautiful, faces and figures built to the same general plan as our own. That this is the first book on primates so richly illustrated reflects the exceptional difficulty of finding and photographing our disappearing distant kin."
—WILLIAM CONWAY,
President,
Wildlife Conservation Society
Internationally renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe teamed up with biologist and primate expert Barbara Sleeper to create this fascinating portrait of Earth's vanishing primates. An incredible visual journey for all who love wildlife and nature, especially anyone curious about humankind's evolutionary heritage, PRIMATES offers a rare gUmpse of the gorillas, monkeys, apes, and other primates with which we share the planet.
Art Wolfe traveled around the globe capturing as many species of primates on film as possible, journeying to the remote jungles of Central and South America, Uganda, and Rwanda, and to research centers and wildlife refuges worldwide.
The resulting photographs celebrate the exotic beauty of these intelligent and, all too often, endangered creatures.
From the playful antics of adolescents to the tender gestures between mother and child, PRIMATES reveals an animal culture that has been, until now, almost completely inaccessible. Included here are extremely rare photographs of lesser-known species such as Madagascar's elusive aye-aye, Africa's mandrill, Asia's golden langur, and South America's small marmosets. Biologist Barbara Sleeper's accompanying text offers insights drawn from her many years spent observing primates in wildest Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. A marvelous blend of word and image, PRIMATES offers a studied look at these remarkable creatures and their vanishing habitat. Vissza