Frans De Waal, a leading primatologist and author of many other books, including The Bonobo and the Atheist and Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes, now 69 years old is the director of the Living Links Center and the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University. Frans De Waal is from The Netherlands, but is currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. De Waal has received many awards, such as the 2015 ASP Distinguished Primatologist Award, the 2014 Galileo Prize, and more than 10 others. Frans De Waal is also a member of the United States Academy of Sciences. In 1998, De Waal traveled around the world in 80 days, Austria, China, Japan, Finland, The Netherlands, and back to the United States. He was said to do
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He can still speak all those languages fluently. De Waal says within The Ape and the Sushi Master that he found himself studying and writing and studying of things that were outside of his field of knowledge. A good example of this is the concept of animals possibly having culture. De Waal goes on to explain the reasoning for possible animal culture being evident, as well as examples of those who see animals below us humans, and the reason behind that in The Ape and the Sushi Master. Many topics were brought up in his book explaining his thoughts and reasoning. The Ape and the Sushi Master was written by Frans De Waal to get his beliefs across, as well as open people’s minds to the subject of animal culture and to get people in the mindset that there may not be such a large divide between nature and culture. De Waals goal within the book is to also get readers reflecting on themselves in a cultural aspect. It is very evident that people have a habit of separating things into ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and many people wouldn’t want to see animals as equals to us. An example of this was brought up by De Waal in the text when he talked about humans using apes as a source of
He can still speak all those languages fluently. De Waal says within The Ape and the Sushi Master that he found himself studying and writing and studying of things that were outside of his field of knowledge. A good example of this is the concept of animals possibly having culture. De Waal goes on to explain the reasoning for possible animal culture being evident, as well as examples of those who see animals below us humans, and the reason behind that in The Ape and the Sushi Master. Many topics were brought up in his book explaining his thoughts and reasoning. The Ape and the Sushi Master was written by Frans De Waal to get his beliefs across, as well as open people’s minds to the subject of animal culture and to get people in the mindset that there may not be such a large divide between nature and culture. De Waals goal within the book is to also get readers reflecting on themselves in a cultural aspect. It is very evident that people have a habit of separating things into ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and many people wouldn’t want to see animals as equals to us. An example of this was brought up by De Waal in the text when he talked about humans using apes as a source of