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Author | : David Barker |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766034563 |
Discusses the great apes, their life cycle, habitats, young, and why these animals are endangered.
Author | : Mary Firestone |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766034525 |
Discusses the life of a tiger, how they hunt, the purpose of its stripes, caring for young, competing with people for space, and that these animals are very close to extinction.
Author | : Sara Cohen Christopherson |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766034532 |
"Readers will learn about whales and dolphins--their life cycles, diets, young, habitats, and reasons why they are endangered animals"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Mary Firestone |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766034570 |
Discusses the different types of rhino, their life cycle, diet, young, habitat, and reasons why they are endangered animals.
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Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Children's libraries |
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Author | : Christopher Gudgeon |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2025-02-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1459838122 |
Let's meet the great ape family! Get to know our charismatic chimpanzee cousins, the peaceful bonobos, three types of high-flying orangutans and those gentle giants of the jungle, the gorillas. Discover where and how they live, their biology, what they eat and what they share in common with humans—beyond their opposable thumbs. These giant mammals are our closest relatives in the animal world, known for their intelligence, complex social structures and communication skills. But great apes everywhere are in trouble. Their habitat is being destroyed by deforestation and the effects of climate change. Their population is dropping, and fast. In Great Apes, find out what conservationists, scientists and young people all over the world are doing to protect them. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Author | : Chris Herzfeld |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0300231652 |
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, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years. Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology and its key players and events, including well-known long-term field studies, notably the pioneering work by women such as Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. Herzfeld seeks to heighten our understanding of great apes and the many ways they are like us. The reader will encounter apes living in human families, painting apes, apes who use American Sign Language, and chimpanzees who travelled in space. A philosopher and historian specializing in primatology, Herzfeld offers thought-provoking insights about our perceptions of apes, as well as the boundary between “human” and “ape” and what it means to be either.
Author | : Kurt Benirschke |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1027 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 146124918X |
This conference represents the first time in my life when I felt it was a misfor tune, rather than a major cause of my happiness, that I do conservation work in New Guinea. Yes, it is true that New Guinea is a fascinating microcosm, it has fascinating birds and people, and it has large expanses of undisturbed rainforest. In the course of my work there, helping the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund set up a comprehensive national park system, I have been able to study animals in areas without any human population. But New Guinea has one serious drawback: it has no primates, except for humans. Thus, I come to this conference on primate conservation as an underprivileged and emotionally deprived observer, rather than as an involved participant. Nevertheless, it is easy for anyone to become interested in primate conserva tion. The public cares about primates. More specifically, to state things more realistically, many people care some of the time about some primates. Primates are rivaled only by birds, pandas, and the big cats in their public appeal. For some other groups of animals, the best we can say is that few people care about them, infrequently. For most groups of animals, no one cares about them, ever.
Author | : Will Self |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802193366 |
Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend’s loving arms. Much to his dismay, however, his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. To add insult to injury, the psychiatric crash team sent to deal with him as he flips his lid is also comprised of chimps. Indeed, the entire city is overrun by clever primates, who, when they are not jostling for position, grooming themselves, or mating some of the females, can be found driving Volvos, hanging out on street corners, and running the world. Nonetheless convinced that he is still a human, Simon is confined to the emergency psychiatric ward of Charing Cross Hospital, where he becomes the patient of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, medical doctor, anti-psychiatrist, and former television personality—an expert at the height of his reign as alpha male. As Busner attempts to convince him that “everyone who is fully sentient in this world are chimpanzees,” Simon struggles with the horrifying delusion that he is really a human trapped in a chimp’s body. Written with the same brilliant satiric wit that has distinguised Self’s earlier fiction, Great Apes is a hilarious, often disturbing, and absolutely original take on man’s place in the evolutionary chain. In a strange and twisted tale that recalls Jonathan Swift and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Will Self’s comic genius is impossible to ignore.
Author | : Craig Stanford |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-11-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0674071662 |
Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet. Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes’ shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction’s complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability. Even the most environmentally concerned observers are unaware of many specific threats faced by great apes. Stanford fills us in, and then tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.