UID:
kobvindex_ZLB12669412
Format:
55 Min.
Content:
Between 1977 and 1984 Nikkie ... was the most powerful chimpanzee in the Netherlands. During that time, Nikkie was the alpha male of the famous Arnhem Zoo chimpanzee colony, the largest semi-captive chimpanzee group in the world. The book "The most powerful chimpanzee of the Netherlands" gives a personal insight into life and death inside this chimpanzee group, based on intensive observations. Aggression, reconciliation, grooming, baby and child-care, teasing, sexual bargaining and separating interventions are recurrent themes. The book contains some exciting observations. Central figure in the story is Nikkie, one of the lead characters in the film The Family of Chimps by the internationally renowned Dutch cineast Bert Haanstra. Several months after that film was finished, Nikkie tried to jump the moat surrounding the enclosure and drowned. His death, and the power struggle leading up to it, received to a lot of media attention. Some journalists tried to turn Nikkie's death into a suicide, which it wasn't. A year after Nikkie's death, film pictures were shown to the entire group, with remarkable results. "The most powerful chimpanzee of the Netherlands" is at the same time the book accompanying the film, and the sequel to "Chimpanzee Politics" by Frans de Waal. In addition, it describes results of research on teasing and the development of quasi-agressive behaviour in chimpanzees. (http://chimpansee.homestead.com/menu.html)
Note:
nach Frans de Waals Buch "Chimpansee Politiek"
In:
Het beste van Bert Haanstra : een success-story met 12 van zijn beste, korte films die samen 54 bekroningen kregen, waaronder een Oscar [Video], Holland, 1997, (1997)
Language:
Dutch
Keywords:
Schimpanse
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Verhaltensforschung
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Videokassette
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Burgers' Zoo
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Schimpanse
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Verhalten
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Videokassette
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Videokassette
Author information:
Waal, Frans B. M. de
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