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A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and...
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2022.
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"Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the mouse discovers an outside world full of wonders: Brussels...
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"Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility, A Beautiful Truth--at times brutal, other times deeply moving--is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure of belonging, and the capacity for survival. A powerful and haunting meditation on human nature told from the dual perspectives of a Vermont family that has adopted a chimp...
7) Hug
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Candlewick Press
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English
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Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.
8) Chimpanzees
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English
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces chimpanzees to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.
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From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees—intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear...
10) Chimpanzees
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Grolier
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Presents an introduction to the physical characteristics and habits of chimpanzees.
11) Cha-cha chimps
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Counting and dancing go hand in hand at Mambo Jamba's, the place where hippos hokey-pokey and meerkats macarena and ten little chimps do the cha-cha-cha, until Mama Chip says, "Time for bed!"
12) Chimpanzees
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Wildlife Education, Ltd
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Presents facts about the physical characteristics and social behavior of chimpanzees.
14) Sims
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English
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F. Paul Wilson, a practicing physician as well as the bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series, turns his attention to the day after tomorrow and shows us how genetic engineering might change the world.
Just a few hundred genes separate humans from chimpanzees. Imagine someone altering the chimp genome, splicing in human genes to increase the size of the cranium, reduce the amount of body hair, enable speech. What sort of creature would result?
Sims...
15) Great apes
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Painter Simon Dykes awakens after a night of drinking to find the world is populated by monkeys. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital where monkey doctors try to cure him of his delusion that he is human. A spoof on the human condition.
16) Chimpanzees
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English
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Learn all about the lives and habits of baby chimpanzees.
17) Chimpanzees
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English
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to chimpanzees. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
18) Chimpanzees
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English
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Follow Gira, a mother chimpanzee, and her son Gando as they go about their lives in Africa's Tai Forest National Park. You'll learn about chimpanzee behavior, basic physical characteristics, and even conservation information in this interesting and fact-filled book. The World of Mammals reveals the fascinating physical and behavioral characteristics of a diverse sampling of animals and offers a detailed account of each animal's habitat and natural...
19) Arthur's pen pal
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English
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Arthur views his little sister in a different light after receiving a revealing letter from his pen pal.
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