The Intimate Ape
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The Intimate Ape
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Author : Shawn Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2010-03-01
The Intimate Ape written by Shawn Thompson and has been published by Kensington Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Nature categories.
Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted. Princess was taught sign language by a researcher and had a limited ability to combine vocabulary. . .. For centuries the shaggy red orangutan lived in peaceful seclusion in the jungles of Southeast Asia and kept the ancient secrets about its quiet, contemplative nature. But that time has come to an end, as one of the earth's most intelligent creatures has, sadly, also become one if its vanishing species. "I went up a muddy brown river called the Sekonyer into the jungles of southern Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, to see orangutans as they really are and to know them the way they deserve to be known. . ." In The Intimate Ape, journalist Shawn Thompson brings together a global assemblage of primatologists, conservationists, and volunteers to reveal the intricate life of these majestic primates. As he travels through the steamy rainforests of Sumatra and the jungle river valleys of Borneo, visiting nature preserves and observing conservation programs, Thompson describes the emotional and intellectual lives of orangutans and recognizes the people who have committed their lives to understand, protect, and ultimately rescue this powerful yet sensitive relation of humanity. "An extraordinary book that adds to our understanding of the animal world." --From the Foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson After 17 years as a reporter, photographer, and editor at newspapers in Ontario, Shawn Thompson became a full-time assistant professor in the journalism department at Thompson Rivers University, in British Columbia, Canada. He has traveled the world to find orangutans and interview orangutan scientists, including trips to Sumatra and Borneo (the only places in the world where orangutans are found in the wild), Java, the Philippines, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United States. He lives in the small city of Kamloops, in the mountainous interior of British Columbia. This is his sixth book.
Wattana
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Author : Chris Herzfeld
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
Wattana written by Chris Herzfeld and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Nature categories.
She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris where Chris Herzfeld first encounters and becomes impressed by Wattana and her exceptional abilities with knots. In Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris Herzfeld tells not only Wattana’s fascinating story, but also the story of orangutans and other primates—including bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas—in captivity. Offering a uniquely intimate look at the daily lives of captive great apes, Herzfeld uses Wattana’s life to trace the history of orangutans from their first arrival in Europe in 1776 to the inhabitants of the Zoo of Paris and other zoos today. She provides a close look at the habits, technical know-how, and skills of Wattana, who, remarkably, uses strings, paper rolls, rope, and even pieces of wood to make things. And she thoughtfully explores how apes individually—and often with ingenuity—come to terms with and adapt to their captive environments and caretakers. Through these stories, Wattana sympathetically reveals the extraordinary psychology and distinctive personalities of great apes as well as the interconnections between animal and human lives, especially in zoos. Scientists predict that orangutans will disappear from the wild by 2030, and captive animals like Wattana may, as a result, provide our best chance to understand and appreciate their astonishing intelligence and abilities. Wattana, the accomplished maker of knots, is the hero of this poignant book, which will enthrall anyone curious about the lives of our primate cousins.
Naked Ape Naked Boss The Man Behind The Singapore Zoo And The World S First Night Safari
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Author : Kirpal Singh
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Naked Ape Naked Boss The Man Behind The Singapore Zoo And The World S First Night Safari written by Kirpal Singh and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Bernard Harrison is credited for having shaped Singapore’s most attractive and iconic leisure destinations — the Singapore Zoo and the Night Safari. For nearly 30 years he was intimately involved and engaged with the transformation and creative developments of these nature parks. This book explores Harrison’s journey and focuses on the critical phases which served as moments of reckoning. How easy was it for this passionate and determined man who couldn’t and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer to do what he really and truly wanted? What shaped his personality? What problems did he encounter in wanting to create a zoo and a night safari that Singapore could be, and is, proud of? In both the personal and the professional fields, his positioning of certain beliefs and value-systems are put in context and readers will be made aware of the intimate drivers of his passions About the Author Dr Kirpal Singh is an internationally renowned writer, poet, fictionist, scholar and critic, having published more than 20 books and over 200 articles. He has appeared over CNBC, BBC, CNA, several other Radio/TV channels around the world and also in the Wall Street Journal, Time, The Age, The Australian, and other leading print media. He has consulted for L’Oreal, IBM, 3M, P&G, Bloomberg and numerous other MNCs. His views have been sought by several government bodies around the world as they have also by some of the world's leading universities including MIT, Yale, Georgetown, NYU, Cambridge, Columbia, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Shanghai. Singh is highly regarded as a Creativity Guru and a Futurist. His 2004 book THINKING HATS AND COLOURED TURBANS: Creativity Across Cultures paved the way for a radically different perspective on the nature of Creativity
Intimate Behaviour
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Author : Desmond Morris
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1972
Intimate Behaviour written by Desmond Morris and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Family & Relationships categories.
One of the best chronicles of human intimacy--from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace.
An Ape Ethic And The Question Of Personhood
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Author : Gregory F. Tague
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-03-05
An Ape Ethic And The Question Of Personhood written by Gregory F. Tague and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Philosophy categories.
Gregory F. Tague’s An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood argues that great apes are moral individuals because they engage in a land ethic as ecosystem engineers to generate ecologically sustainable biomes for themselves and other species. Tague shows that we need to recognize apes as eco-engineers in order to save them and their habitats, and that in so doing, we will ultimately save earth’s biosphere. The book draws on extensive empirical research from the ecology and behavior of great apes and synthesizes past and current understanding of the similarities in cognition, social behavior, and culture found in apes. Importantly, this book proposes that differences between humans and apes provide the foundation for the call to recognize forest personhood in the great apes. While all ape species are alike in terms of cognition, intelligence, and behaviors, there is a vital contrast: unlike humans, great apes are efficient ecological engineers. Therefore, simian forest sovereignty is critical to conservation efforts in controlling global warming, and apes should be granted dominion over their tropical forests. Weaving together philosophy, biology, socioecology, and elements from eco-psychology, this book provides a glimmer of hope for future acknowledgment of the inherent ethic that ape species embody in their eco-centered existence on this planet.
The Woman And The Ape
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Author : Peter Høeg
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29
The Woman And The Ape written by Peter Høeg and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Fiction categories.
The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.
Eating Apes
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Author : Dale Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-09-06
Eating Apes written by Dale Peterson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-06 with History categories.
Annotation As Jane Goodall never fails to mention, "bush meat is the greatest conservation crisis in my lifetime." This book documents in text and photographs how wild animals in the Congo Basin, particularly the Great Apes but also chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are slaughtered and used for human consumption.
Among The Great Apes
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Author : Paul Raffaele
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-01-30
Among The Great Apes written by Paul Raffaele and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-30 with Science categories.
“A fantastic book. . . . Anyone who cares about animals will benefit hugely from reading it.” —Shaun Ellis, star of Animal Planet's "Living with the Wolfman" and author of The Man Who Lives with Wolves Award winning adventure journalist Paul Raffaele’s Among the Great Apes is the first book in over a decade—and possibly the last ever—to take its readers into the lives of our charismatic cousins the great apes in their native habitats. Raffaele, a feature writer for Smithsonian magazine, has been called “nothing less than a one-of-a-kind world treasure” by renowned author Alvin Toffler.
Tarzan The Ape Man
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Author : Laura Cremonini
language : en
Publisher: Self-Publish
Release Date :
Tarzan The Ape Man written by Laura Cremonini and has been published by Self-Publish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Book size 21.59x21.59 cm. Black and white book. Book, mainly, of only images. At the beginning of the book, the short essay: Tarzan of the Apes. At the end of the images, the first chapter of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Voices From The Ape House
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Author : Beth Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Trillium
Release Date : 2020
Voices From The Ape House written by Beth Armstrong and has been published by Trillium this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A memoir from an influential Columbus Zoo gorilla keeper and conservationist"--