Apes category: 42 books
by Erika Fleury
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Apes, monkeys, and other nonhuman primates have a dual role in modern society. They are revered for their intelligence, uncanny mimicry, and biological relation to humans, yet are often forced to spend entire lifetimes as unwilling participants in the bioresearch, entertainment and pet industries.
The...
Of Bonobos and Men
A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Bonobos have captured the public imagination in recent years, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don’t kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to building peaceful coalitions and sharing resources...
On Atheists and Bonobos
A Conversation with Frans de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Everyday we are confronted with choices; most are relatively mundane, but occasionally we must carefully weigh different options and struggle to determine “good” from “bad”, and “right” from “wrong”. These notions emanate from, and are influenced by a system of values, a system of...
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.
“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when...
The Girl with No Name
The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The unbelievable true story of a young girl who is abandoned in the Colombian jungle and finds asylum in the most unlikely of places—with a troop of capuchin monkeys
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman...
Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Now Elizabeth Hess’s unforgettable biography is the inspiration for Project Nim, a riveting new documentary directed by James Marsh and produced by Simon Chinn, the Oscar-winning team known for Man on Wire. Hess, a consultant on the film, says, “Getting a call...
by George Dean Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Burlington County, New Jersey is hardly a place where one might expect to find North American's scary great ape, the sasquatch. The county is directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, and 70 miles from New York City. By contrast, most of the thousands of Internet reports of encounters with...
The Impenetrable Forest
My Gorilla Years in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers to develop an ecotourism...
Through a Window
My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting...
by Shawn Thompson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted. Princess was taught sign language by a researcher and had a limited ability to combine vocabulary. . ..
For centuries the shaggy red orangutan lived in peaceful seclusion in the jungles...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 99 high-quality color images produced by a series of today's professional photographers.
by Ted Gott, Kathryn Weir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Since coming to international prominence in the mid-nineteenth century when English, French, and American scientists first encountered them, the gorilla’s physical resemblance to humans has struck a deep chord. Gorillas quickly came to dominate evolutionary debates and grew prevalent in literature,...
Wildlife Rescue
As America's #1 Wildlife Techniques Manual You'll Be Surprise To Discover Must Read Information About Wildlife Heroes, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Art, Wildlife Science Connecting Research With Management and Wildlife Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
With this top-rated wildlife resue guide you'll will learn about wildlife heroes, wildlife management, wildlife art, wildlife science connecting research with management, wildlife management, wildlife rehabilitation and more.
by Jan Latta
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
COME ON A GREAT ADVENTURE WITH CHIMAKA THE CHIMPANZEE!
A true-to-life story about chimpanzees. Discover where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. This book is dedicated to Dr. Jane Goodall.
Jan Latta is the author and photographer of True to Life Books. To create the...