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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
2) Bonobos
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces bonobos, describing their behavior, habitat, life cycle, communication skills, and the threats they face from deforestation and poaching.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces how a Discovery Channel writer and her scientist fiancé settled in a Bonobo sanctuary in war-torn Congo, where their research enabled greater understanding of the characteristics and largely peaceful culture of the rare ape that shares 98.7 percent of human DNA.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A renowned primatologist argues that ethical behavior witnessed in animals is the evolutionary and biological origin of human fairness and explains that morality has more to do with natural instincts than with religion.
9) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
10) Primacy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Verbitrage
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tens of thousands of monkeys and apes suffer in animal testing labs. If just one of them could speak, what might it say and whose interests would it threaten? Liane works at the primate lab at Pentalon, the world's biggest and most secretive animal testing facility. When one of her favorite apes, a young bonobo called Bea, has shockingly developed the ability to speak, all her doubts awaken-- doubts about right and wrong, about following the rules,...
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