false 6296806 2 <b>WHILE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY</b> 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 his fellow chimps but seemed utterly convinced that he knew the author from some other time and place.<P>"Mostly I was struck by Roger's stare," writes Siebert, "his deep-set hazel eyes peering out at me with what, to my deep discomfort, I'd soon realize is their unchanging expression. It is a beguiling mix of amazement and apprehension, the look, as I've often thought of it since, of a being stranded between his former self and the one we humans have long been suggesting to him. A sort of hybrid of a chimp and a person. A veritable 'humanzee.'"<P>Haunted by Roger's demeanor, Siebert promptly moved into a cottage on the grounds of the Center for Great Apes, spending day after day with Roger, trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious connection between them. And then late one night, awakened by the cries of chimpanzees, a sleepless and troubled Siebert suddenly began to conjure a secret, predawn encounter with his new cross-species confidant, an apparently one-sided conversation that, in fact, takes us to the very heart of the author's relationship with Roger and of our relationship with our own captive primal selves.<P>The result is <I>The Wauchula Woods Accord,</i> a strikingly written, wide-ranging physical and metaphysical foray out along the increasingly fraught frontier between humans and animals; a journey that encompasses many of the author's encounters with chimpanzees and other animals, as well as the latest scientific discoveries that underscore our intimate biological bonds not only with our nearest kin but with far more remoteseeming life-forms.<P>By journey's end, the reader arrives at a deeper understanding both of Roger and of our numerous other animal selves, a recognition -- an accord -- that carries a new sense of responsibility for how we view and treat all animals, including ourselves. 6481347 9 6 2009 The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals total:23|5:6|4:3|3:11|2:3|1:0| 23 81 91 15 3 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:50:51 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 10:55:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 05:18:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 05:27:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 19 17:43:47 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 17:48:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 14:37:13 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 14:39:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 20:18:45 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 10:03:05 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 07:05:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 07:09:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 13 09:44:47 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 09:53:04 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 09:27:59 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 07:39:08 -0700 2009
Interesting reading, but no focus.]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 03 14:40:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 14:41:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 08 18:57:23 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 18:57:57 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 08:18:10 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 14:23:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Aug 06 17:15:06 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 06:10:23 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 21:20:33 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 21:21:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 20:16:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 21:13:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 21:08:05 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 21:08:48 -0700 2009 The excerpt I read was pretty awesome.]]> 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 07:58:38 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 07:58:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 19:46:43 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 19:46:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Nov 03 11:16:36 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 07:06:35 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:16:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 16 17:08:01 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 22:26:30 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 22:26:30 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 29 07:44:13 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:44:29 -0700 2009