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 - with a gallery of colour photographs - expands our knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour and tells what has happened to the members of the arnhem colony in the past 15 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, his detailed and thoroughly engrossing account - of sexual rivalries and coalitions, of actions governed by intelligence rather than instinct - reaffirms the complex bond between humans and their closed living relatives.