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Primates Books
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In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as primates)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,319 ratings — published 1971
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as primates)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,205 ratings — published 1983
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as primates)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,740 ratings — published 1994
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as primates)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,022 ratings — published 1982
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as primates)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,354 ratings — published 2013
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as primates)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,408 ratings — published 2005
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as primates)
avg rating 4.32 — 515 ratings — published 1997
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,892 ratings — published 2001
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,091 ratings — published 1997
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,410 ratings — published 1990
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.29 — 890 ratings — published 1995
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as primates)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,640 ratings — published 2013
One Gorilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as primates)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,053 ratings — published 2012
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as primates)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,669 ratings — published 1991
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as primates)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,035 ratings — published 2010
The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primates)
avg rating 4.05 — 612 ratings — published 2001
Primate Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primates)
avg rating 4.26 — 34 ratings — published 1997
Walking with Gorillas: The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.07 — 264 ratings — published 2023
Grumpy Monkey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,389 ratings — published 2018
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,673 ratings — published 2019
Good Night, Gorilla (Board book)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.24 — 51,913 ratings — published 1994
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,985 ratings — published 2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 3.71 — 127,032 ratings — published 2013
Count the Monkeys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,887 ratings — published 2013
Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World And Ours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.21 — 187 ratings — published
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.27 — 210,628 ratings — published 2012
Ape House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,444 ratings — published 2010
Curious George (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 140,103 ratings — published 1941
Peacemaking among Primates (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.21 — 157 ratings — published 1988
My Life with the Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,662 ratings — published 1988
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.47 — 143 ratings — published 1986
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,675 ratings — published 1987
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.07 — 235 ratings — published 1989
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.05 — 968 ratings — published 1996
Great Ape Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1996
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,166 ratings — published 2022
In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.13 — 158 ratings — published 2001
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.11 — 462 ratings — published 1996
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 3.63 — 178,926 ratings — published 1980
The Year of the Gorilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.03 — 146 ratings — published 1964
Visions Of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 65 ratings — published 1993
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,095 ratings — published 2011
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,350 ratings — published 2006
Curious George Visits the Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,102 ratings — published 2003
Curious George Visits the Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,500 ratings — published 1985
The Woman That Never Evolved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.09 — 243 ratings — published 1981
Primate Behavioral Ecology (2nd Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 3.84 — 86 ratings — published 1999
Primate Anatomy: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1999
Primate Males: Causes and Consequences of Variation in Group Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2000
Primate Conservation Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 2000
“Poaching of one kind or another is, of course, the single most serious threat to the survival of the mountain gorillas, but it's hard not to wonder whether declaring open season on human beings is the best plan for solving the problem. We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”
― Last Chance to See
― Last Chance to See
“Humans diverged from apes about as long ago as African and Asian elephants did from each other, and they are genetically as close or distant. Yet we freely call both of those species “elephants” while obsessing over the specific point at which our own lineage moved from being an ape to being human. We even have special words for this process, such as humanization and anthropogenesis. That there was ever a point in time is a widespread illusion, like trying to find the precise wavelength in the light spectrum at which orange turns red. Our desire for sharp divisions is at odds with evolution’s habit of making extremely smooth transitions.”
― Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
― Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves











