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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
When Evangeline Mudd's parents travel without her to the Ikkinasti Jungle to study the golden-haired apes, Evangeline and Dr. Aphrodite Pikkaflee are eventually called upon to rescue the Mudds and save the jungle from the evil schemes of Aphrodite's money-mad brother.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002, c1991]
Language
English
Description
This film provides an amazing encounter with the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, a highly social species and one of the world's largest primates. Eat, nap, travel, eat is the routine for adult gorillas, but the young members of the troop see everything as play, play, play! Watch a young silverback challenge the leader for dominance of the troop.
4) Smithy
Author
Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man's closest relative--the primate. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. But as the summer deepens and the history of the mansion manifests, the messages...
6) Webster
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkshares. Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1974, in a derelict Rhode Island mansion called Trevor Hall, a team of scientists taught American Sign Language to a chimpanzee. They affectionately christened their subject "Smithy." His official name was Webster. The Smithy Project ended in tragedy, some believing that a dark presence inside Trevor Hall had been disturbed. Webster was acquired by CSAM, a research lab in California run by the iron-fisted Manfried Teague. CSAM had...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The first program goes into Tanzania's Gombe National Park to observe the daily life of the chimpanzee clan Jane Goodall has known since the days of her research in the 1960s. The second program delves into the questions are chimps and other primates similar to us? How does their intelligence compare to our own? Answers are found both in the laboratory and in the wild. The program also goes to Central Zaire to observe pygmy chimps (bonobos) in the...