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5 - Scratching Out a Living in an Unforgiving World

Habitat and Diet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Kevin D. Hunt
Kevin D. Hunt
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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In captivity, chimpanzees seem … inadequate: confused; incompetent; to be pitied. Even when happy in captivity, by which I mean not driven to psychosis by solitary confinement or boredom, they seem out of their depth, lost in a human world that is complex beyond their imagining.

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Chimpanzee
Lessons from our Sister Species
 , pp. 61 - 79
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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