Apes Monkeys category: 42 books
Storytelling Apes
Primatology Narratives Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades; the mountain gorillas...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Apes look and act far more like humans than other animals. Apes are super apes, just as apes are super monkeys. Portraits of the apes provide some glimpses into our closest cousins.
by John Sorenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Apes—to look at them is to see a mirror of ourselves. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behavior and social personality. Here, John Sorenson delves into our conflicted relationship to the great apes, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does...
The Great Apes
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline
This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind’s relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,...
by Desmond Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Monkeys populate our culture, from the adorable hijinks of Curious George and the loyal friendship between Aladdin and Abu to the menacing gait of the winged ones in The Wizard of Oz. We visit them in zoos and even sometimes keep them as pets à la Catherine de Medici and Michael Jackson. As renowned...
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...
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...
The Ape And The Sushi Master
Cultural Reflections Of A Primatologist
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own distinctive cultures
In The Ape and the Sushi Master, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal corrects our arrogant assumption...
by Craig B. Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.
Wattana
An Orangutan in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris where Chris Herzfeld first encounters and becomes impressed by...
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The “moving” true story of a woman fighting to give a group of chimpanzees a second chance at life (People).
In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like...
Among Chimpanzees
Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
**Foreword by Jane Goodall
A former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save man’s closest relative.**
Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses show them to be extinct in four African...
The Wauchula Woods Accord
Toward a New Understanding of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
WHILE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY to report on the conditions in which captive chimpanzees in America live, Charles Siebert visited a retirement home for former ape movie stars and circus entertainers in Wauchula, Florida, known as the Center for Great Apes. There Siebert encountered Roger, a twenty-eight-year-old...
Encountering Gorillas
A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Gorillas, the largest of the apes inhabiting our planet, have been a source of fear, awe, and inspiration to humans. In this book, James L. Newman brings a lifetime of study of Africa to his compelling story of the rich and varied interaction between gorillas and humans since earliest contact. He...