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  • Foot Notes

    Experiences With Sasquatch, 2004-2018

    by Susan Barron ...
    Foot Notes explores the experiences of, first, a woman who lives in a remote area of Alabama. When the author is asked to help with the unnerving intrusion of the animals into her life, an extended adventure begins involving both women, and then with the author on her own. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Primate's Memoir

    A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

    In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons."I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • True Bigfoot Horror: The Apex Predator - Monster in the Woods - Book Zero

    by Jeremy Kelly ...
    Enjoy a Variety of True Bigfoot Stories from Violent and Horrifying to Interesting and Fascinating.Ten years ago I went on a hunting trip in northern Washington State with my cousin Jason. I am far from an outdoors-man but I still jumped on the opportunity for a long weekend getaway with my crazy cousin. Had I know what I know today I am not sure if I would have gone, but what is certain is that ... Read more

    Free

  • Through a Window

    My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

    by Jane Goodall ...
    The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monkeys!

    Cute pictures of monkeys, chimps, and other primates!

    by Gina Jarvis ...
    Series series Pictures of Cute Animals
    Cute pictures of monkeys, nothing more!Full color photographs of cute monkeys, chimps, and other primates!These pictures look great on color tablets and other devices! ... Read more

    Free

  • The Truth About Animals

    Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

    by Lucy Cooke ...
    Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal worldHumans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Nim Chimpsky

    The Chimp Who Would Be Human

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow Elizabeth Hess’s unforgettable biography is the inspiration for Project Nim, a riveting new documentary directed by James Marsh and produced by Simon Chinn, the Oscar-winning team known for Man on Wire. Hess, a consultant on the film, says, “Getting a call from James Marsh and Simon Chinn is an author’s dream. Project Nim is nothing short of amazing.”**Could an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Chimpanzee Whisperer

    A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation

    by Stany Nyandwi ...
    From survivor of genocide to conservation hero: A moving, heartwarming memoir about a real-life chimpanzee whisperer—now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot.Stany Nyandwi’s gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a “chimpanzee whisperer.” His skills and devotion to these creatures—our closest ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Walking With Gorillas

    The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet

    An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal.In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain gorillas and other wild animals. She is also the defender of people as a groundbreaking promoter of human public health and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Jane Goodall

    The Woman Who Redefined Man

    by Dale Peterson ...
    A biography of the primatologist that “vividly and significantly enriches our understanding of Goodall”—includes photographs (Booklist, starred review).This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall’s accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wauchula Woods Accord

    Toward a New Understanding of Animals

    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 former Ringling Bros. star who not only preferred the company of people to that of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Planet Without Apes

    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

    A True Story of Resilience and Recovery

    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 presiding over a maximum-security prison, a Zen sanctuary, an old folks’ home, and a New York deli during the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Spot A Bigfoot Hoax

    Bigfoot TV programs often show Bigfooters LOOKING for a bigfoot, but never FINDING a bigfoot. There are lots of reasons why this happens: ignorance, continuing to get paid to look for one, protecting the bigfoots, etc. Those TV programs have created a tenuous vacuum in human knowledge, and this book tries to fill that vacuum. ... Read more

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  • The Impenetrable Forest

    My Gorilla Years in Uganda

    by Thor Hanson ...
    Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas.  For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers to develop an ecotourism program for the newly-formed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.  Thoroughly researched and beautifully ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • No He's Not a Monkey, He's an Ape and He's My Son

    by Hester Mundis ...
    Meet Boris, the chimp who took a bite out of the Big Apple—and wished it had been a banana: “No one concerned with either apes or people should miss it.” —Peter S. Beagle, award-winning author of The Last UnicornThis book answers the question that is on everybody’s mind: “What’s it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan?” Hester Mundis’s hilarious memoir No He’s Not a Monkey, He’s an Ape and He’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadly Animals in the Wild

    From Venomous Snakes, Man-Eaters to Poisonous Spiders

    Series series Deadliest Animals on the Planet
    Children learn to use their imagination when they read about things that are new to them and naturally intriguing. Learning about deadly animals sparks the minds of kids as they envision such animals out in the wild and how they hunt and capture prey as kids can create amazing scenarios simply through the use of their imagination once they know some basic information. Kids adore anything about ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In the Kingdom of Gorillas

    The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas

    When Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and Vedder realized that the gorillas were doomed unless something was done to save their forest home. Over Fossey's objections, they helped found the Mountain ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Burlington County Sasquatch

    Burlington County, New Jersey is hardly a place where one might expect to find North American's scary great ape, the sasquatch. The county is directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, and 70 miles from New York City. By contrast, most of the thousands of Internet reports of encounters with the animal occur in places like Oregon and British Columbia. But this book reports 8 encounters ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decolonizing Extinction

    The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

    Series series Experimental Futures
    In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Lost in the Jungle

    Du Chaillu was an explorer and traveler of great note. He discovered the gorilla in Central Africa and his work is one of the seminal pieces of early Central African exploration. Du Chaillu’s travels to Equatorial Africa were to an area previously unexplored by Europeans--the wooded region bordering the Equator, in the interior of Western Africa. It was on this journey that he was able to observe ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manipulative Monkeys

    The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal

    by Susan Perry ...
    With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other’s shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another’s noses. They often nurse—but sometimes kill—each other’s offspring. They use sex as a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Empty Hands, Open Arms

    The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral

    “Absorbing . . . Béchard’s masterful, adventure-driven reporting delivers an inspiring account of an all-too-rare ecological success story.” —BooklistBonobos have captured the public imagination, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don’t kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to building ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Almost Us: Portraits Of The Apes

    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. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD