I would like to suggest the Bonobo. It is the closest relative to humans. It is a very social animal.
The common Chimpanzee has been used on an O'Reilly book before but The Bonobo Chimpanzee has not-don't know if that counts, but I promote it anyway. :)
The Bonobo is also an endangered species, so it could use the attention. :)
Jennifer - Thanks for getting us started with our first suggestion. I went ahead and added it to the wiki on your behalf. :-)
Randy
xian
· 11 months ago
oh hey , no fair! I was going to suggest the Bonobo for the cover of Designing Social Interfaces!
They need an animal where reputation really matters. A peacock?
frandallfarmer
· 11 months ago
Lol! A competition already? :-) Srsly, Xian, feel free to suggest whatever you like, especially since your book will be coming out first. ;-)
Too bad that the Peacock is already on a book and there aren't too many subspecies of that lovely bird...
xian
· 11 months ago
heh, ell as you know, any suggestion to O'Reilly will be met with a very polite "thank you for the suggestion, we will share it with the cover designer" / noncomittal reply!
(I just like that Bonobo's are nonviolent and use sex to resolve their conflicts!)
Bryce
· 11 months ago
I'm gonna suggest the stomatopod, for reasons that will become clear once I post them. :-)
frandallfarmer
· 11 months ago
I really dig the Mantis Shrimp - what a great find. How did you come across that Bryce?
Bryce
· 11 months ago
That was a months-ago google-wander for 'animals and reputation' that landed me on an amazon search-inside-the-book page. Sheer luck, mostly.
Chip Morningstar
· 11 months ago
I'd suggest an elephant, what with reputation being intimately tied up with the whole business of not forgetting.
frandallfarmer
· 11 months ago
Care to expound on that, Chip?
Bridget AG
· 11 months ago
Walruses are gregarious, social and comptetitive, as well as looking good in pen and ink line drawings, as in Tenniel's Walrus and the Carpenter illustrations:
From Sea World's website: 1. Walruses are among the most gregarious of animals. They exhibit social behavior all year and congregate by the hundreds. Walruses haul out in herds; they seldom haul out alone. Individuals frequently compete for the most favorable haul-out sites 2. Males and females form separate herds. 3. Social dominance is well established in herds and subgroups. Dominance within herds is established by tusk size, body size, and aggressiveness. The largest walruses with the longest tusks are the most aggressive and threatening. Animals that are smaller or those with small or broken tusks have a lower social ranking.
frandallfarmer
· 11 months ago
Thanks Bridget! That was a complete submission - I moved it up onto the page.
I was totally surprised that O'Reilly doesn't list a Walrus already on a book cover. I thought for sure I'd seen one already.
Gallus gallus, ancestor of the very social, intelligent, verbal and rank-obsessed domestic chicken. Lovely roosters (and hens, but the image should be the glorious rooster) symbolize pecking order, in its pristine form. (But is there an O'Reilly Chicken yet?)
frandallfarmer
· 11 months ago
Thanks for suggesting something from the Chicken family - I think that is an intuitive choice...
Presently, the only chicken on a book is listed as "Chick and Egg" - so I think this one is unique.
frandallfarmer
· 11 months ago
Just added the Magie and Jackdaw - The behavior of collecting shiny things and hording them is very much like the favorite reputation pattern - people favorite the things they like and those are surfaced to others as shiny objects.
frandallfarmer
· 5 months ago
I had to lock the page against anonymous edits. Stupid Spammers.
If you leave a comment here suggesting an animal, I'll happily copy it into the body of the page.
Did I say "Stupid Spammers" yet?
xian
· 5 months ago
you not social till you've got spammers! :D
frandallfarmer
· 2 months ago
Thanks everyone for the suggestions! In the end they didn't chose one of these, but we're keeping the page as part of the archives. Perhaps some future book on a related topic might want to use these great ideas.
All Comments
The common Chimpanzee has been used on an O'Reilly book before but The Bonobo Chimpanzee has not-don't know if that counts, but I promote it anyway. :)
The Bonobo is also an endangered species, so it could use the attention. :)
Here are some links:
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behav...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Randy
They need an animal where reputation really matters. A peacock?
Too bad that the Peacock is already on a book and there aren't too many subspecies of that lovely bird...
(I just like that Bonobo's are nonviolent and use sex to resolve their conflicts!)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://w...
From Sea World's website:
1. Walruses are among the most gregarious of animals. They exhibit social behavior all year and congregate by the hundreds. Walruses haul out in herds; they seldom haul out alone. Individuals frequently compete for the most favorable haul-out sites
2. Males and females form separate herds.
3. Social dominance is well established in herds and subgroups. Dominance within herds is established by tusk size, body size, and aggressiveness. The largest walruses with the longest tusks are the most aggressive and threatening. Animals that are smaller or those with small or broken tusks have a lower social ranking.
I was totally surprised that O'Reilly doesn't list a Walrus already on a book cover. I thought for sure I'd seen one already.
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/75/1...
Gallus gallus, ancestor of the very social, intelligent, verbal and rank-obsessed domestic chicken. Lovely roosters (and hens, but the image should be the glorious rooster) symbolize pecking order, in its pristine form.
(But is there an O'Reilly Chicken yet?)
Presently, the only chicken on a book is listed as "Chick and Egg" - so I think this one is unique.
If you leave a comment here suggesting an animal, I'll happily copy it into the body of the page.
Did I say "Stupid Spammers" yet?
Thanks again!