The Ape and the Sushi Master Reflections of a Primatologist by Waal, Franz De -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Prologue The Apes’ Tea Party

Culture Versus Nature? Around the World in Eighty Days Litter-Box Culture The Sushi Master It Takes a Village ...

Section 1: Cultural Glasses The Way We See Other Animals

Zigzag through the Polder Pecking Orders in Oslo Uninfluenced by Actual Behavior The “Which Is Which?” Approach Smoke and Mirrors Are We in Anthropodenial? Bambification What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Gorilla Saves Boy Darwistotle

2: The Fate of Gurus When Silverbacks Become Stumbling Blocks

Behind the Mirror The Dark Side After the War Niko Tinbergen Between Science and Ideology Lorenz Today Imanishi as Founder Imanishi as Obstacle Darwin Envy

3: Bonobos and Fig Leaves Primate Hippies in a Puritan Landscape

Kamasutra Primates The Two Laws of Puritanism What’s Wrong with Those Males? Uncomfortable Scientists New Kid on the Block

4: Animal Art Would You Hang a Congo on the Wall?

Can’t Stand Schönberg Mozart’s Little Fool Pigeons and Impressionists Apes with an Oeuvre The Germ of Aesthetics

Section 2: What Is Culture and Does It Exist in Nature?

Respect for the Unexpected Noble Savages The Individual in Society The Prepared Mind Koshima Imo’s Innovations Acquired Taste Strange Rumors Still Doing It

6: The Last Rubicon Can Other Animals Have Culture?

Do Apes Ape? The Urge to Be Like Others The Tortoise and the Hare Solid Ground

7: The Nutcracker Suite Reliance on Culture in Nature

But Is It Tool Use, and Do They Need It? Clasping Hands The “Bronx Cheer” and Other Local Variants You Scratch My Back Of Memes and Genes

8: Cultural Naturals Tea and Tibetan Macaques

Shared Humanity Shared Macaqueness Infant Bridges Social Culture Improved Monkeys The Welcome Tree

Section 3: Human Nature The Way We See Ourselves

9: Apes with Self-Esteem Abraham Maslow and the Taboo on Power

Arnhem Revisited Nikkie’s Ghost Power by Another Name No Simple Lessons

10: Survival of the Kindest Of Selfish Genes and Unselfish Dogs

The Spider and She Fly The Midwife Bat Depressed Rescue Dogs Apples and Oranges

11: Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness

Westermarck Beats Freud Bulldog Bites Master Moral Emotions The Ke Willow

Epilogue The Squirrel’s Jump Notes

Bibliography Acknowledgments A Note About the Author A Note About the Type Index