Craig B. Stanford

A fairly straightforward and short polemic on saving great apes from extinction, that I picked up on Amazon for my Kindle in a quick shop before going away. It was depressing insofar as he convinced me that the future is not at all good for any of the great apes, despite his early welcome insistence that he was not going to be depressing. I wish it could be more positive, but it doesn't sound like a good prognosis, especially not for orang-utans.

This was for a class on Human Evolution. There were parts of it that were drier then coprolites, but over all the text was very well written and offered a large amount of information with plenty of diagrams, pictures and links to other resources.

I liked this book, because it brought me many new revelations. The book is not a deep read, so any one who wants a deep analysis of the hunting apes, and how some of their behaviours mirror our own, will not find this. Yet, for some one who is new, or relatively new to the subject, this book is quite fascinating.
It is an easy read, and is quite approachable. I like this aspect of the book

I also did not know that chimpanzees eat other monkeys. Wow!