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This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world¿s preeminent primatologists¿including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal¿as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds.
List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Jane Goodall
2. Lilly Ajarova
3. Richard Wrangham
4. John Mitani
5. Caroline Asiimwe
6. Anne Pusey
7. Tetsuro Matsuzawa
8. Christophe Boesch
9. Andrew Whiten
10. Melissa Emery Thompson
11. David Koni
12. Tatyana Humle
13. Brian Hare
14. Raven Jackson-Jewett
15. Frans de Waal
16. Elizabeth Lonsdorf
Afterword
Suggested Reading
About the author
Stephen Ross is the director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. He is a coeditor of The Mind of the Chimpanzee (2010) and, with Lydia Hopper, Chimpanzees in Context (2020).
Lydia Hopper is an associate professor and director of behavioral management at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is an adjunct scientist at and was previously assistant director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo.
Summary
This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world’s preeminent primatologists—including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal—as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds.
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Chimpanzee Memoirs is an invaluable collection of essays by a who's who of researchers who know these amazing nonhuman beings in astonishing detail. Reading these pieces, which come straight from the authors' hands and hearts, is an inspirational experience that explains what they did, why they did it, what it all means, and most importantly, what still needs to be done in the future to give these remarkable great apes the best lives possible in an increasingly human-dominated world. I hope it enjoys a global audience because the numerous lessons that are offered can be applied to many different species who depend on our goodwill for their very survival.
