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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Really interesting how similar chimps and humans are, and how cruel humans are. Behavior/Chimpanzees/Gombe Stream National Park/Human-animal relationships/Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology/Nature / Field Guide Books/Research & Methodology/Science/Science/Mathematics/Tanzania/Science / Methodology Goodall's account of her initiation into the world of ethology is extraordinary. With the support of her mother and mentor, Louis Leakey, she spent months in the jungle of Tanzania following a band of chipmanzees in the Gombe region. Her observations showed that chimps use tools and hunt for meat, which was, at the time, a radical departure from what was known. Jane Goodall's observations and anecdotes make for an extremely readable book, allowing a deep look into the remarkable lives of chimps David Graybeard, Flo, Flint, and the others. This early book by the extraordinary Jane Goodall is a fascinating first look at chimp behavior. It is one of those rare scientific accounts that is at once accessible and detailed. Goodall weaves together the early observations of the scientists working at Gombe with her own reactions to the things they were learning and the happenings they observed in the chimp community near their station. Highly recommended, and I'm heading out today to pick up the sequel, Through a Window. no reviews | add a review
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