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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.
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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