Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field by Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch PDF

By Martha M. Robbins,Christophe Boesch

those compelling tales and images take us to locations like Bwindi Impenetrable nationwide Park in Uganda, Ivindo nationwide Park in Gabon, and the Taï nationwide Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intimate and revealing examine the lives of African wild apes—and on the lives of the people who research them. In stories of experience, examine, and conservation, veteran box researchers and conservationists describe interesting discoveries revamped the earlier few many years approximately chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. The publication positive aspects shiny descriptions of interactions between those extremely smart creatures as they hunt, socialize, and play. more challenging topics grow to be good, together with the threats apes face from poaching, sickness, and deforestation. In tales which are usually relocating and hugely own, this e-book takes degree of ways specific the nice apes are and discusses confident conservation efforts, together with ecotourism, which could support deliver those significant animals again from the edge of extinction.

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