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In Chimpanzee Politics, Frans de Waal expands and updates his extraordinary account of the daily life of a large zoo colony of chimpanzees in Arnhem, The Netherlands. This new edition expands our knowledge of chimpanzee behavior and tells what has happened to the members of the Arnhem colony in the last fifteen years. When first published in 1982, Chimpanzee Politics helped establish the now accepted view that the higher animals experience desires, intentions, and even consciousness. Today, this engrossing account of sexual rivalries and coalitions, of actions governed by intelligence rather than instinct, reaffirms the complex bond between humans and their closest living relatives. The chimpanzees of Arnhem behave in ways we recognize from Machiavelli; the roots of politics, de Waal concludes are older than humanity