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Author
Publisher
Armadillo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This book helps you discover the exciting world of chimps, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and more, with over 200 pictures. The lifestyles, environments and physical characteristics of great apes are captured in accessible text, dramatic wildlife photographs and detailed illustrations. You can visit remote but threatened habitats, from the misty mountains of Africa to the dark and dappled rainforests of South-east Asia. Focus features zoom in on detailed...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This... work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankinds 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,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes."
4) Going ape!
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to some of the world's primate species, with informative facts about such animals as chimpanzees, macaques, gibbons, baboons, orangutans, and gorillas.
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