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About Save the Chimps:
- Opening Doors – Gary Ferguson
About Chimpanzee Sanctuaries:
- Kindred Beings – Sheri Speede
- In My Family Tree: A Life With Chimpanzees – Sheila Siddle
- The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery – Andrew Westoll
About Captive Chimpanzees:
- Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees – Roger Fouts
- Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human – Elizabeth Hess
- Saving Molly: A Research Veterinarian’s Choices – James Mahoney
- Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People – Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall
- The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees – Andrew Halloran
- Brutal Kinship – Michael Nichols and Jane Goodall
- Hero Chimps – Julie Norton
About Chimpanzee Behavior:
- In the Shadow of Man – Jane Goodall
- Through a Window – Jane Goodall
- The Mind of the Chimpanzee: Ecological and Experimental Perspectives – Elizabeth Lonsdorf, Stephen Ross, Tetsuro Matsuzawa
- Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale – Toshisada Nishida
- The Chimpanzees of Budongo Forest: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation – Vernon Reynolds
- The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest: Behavioural Ecology and Evolution – Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann
- Chimpanzee Cultures – Richard Wrangham, W.C McGrew, Frans de Waal, Paul Heltne
- Chimpanzee Behavior in the Wild (An Audio-Visual Encyclopedia) – T. Nishida, K. Zamma, T. Matsusaka, A. Inaba, W.C. McGrew
Human Use of Apes and other Primates:
- Monkey Business: A History of Non-human Primate Rights – Erika Fleury
- We Animals – Jo-Anne MacArthur
- Monkey Wars – Deborah Blum
- Eating Apes – Dale Peterson
- Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals – Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek
- Animal Underworld: Inside America’s Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species – Allen Green
- Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for All Animals – Steven Wise
- Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle – Colin Burgess & Chris Dubbs
General Primate Information and Photography:
- The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives – Ian Redmond
- The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates – Noel Rowe and Russell Mittermeier
- In Praise of Primates – Steve Bloom
- Great Ape Odyssey – Birute Galdikas and Karl Ammann
- Among the Great Apes – Paul Raffaele
- Bonobo Handshake – Vanessa Woods
- Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field – Martha Robbins and Christophe Boesch
For Children:
- A Chimpanzee Tale – Karen Young
- My Life with the Chimpanzees – Dr. Jane Goodall
- Rickie and Henri – Dr. Jane Goodall
- Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours – Dr. Jane Goodall
Recommended Viewing:
- One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps – Dave Cassidy and Kristin Davy
- Nature: Chimpanzees, An Unnatural History – Allison Argo
- Disneynature: Chimpanzee
- Nova: Ape Genius
- Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees
- Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry – Carol Fleischer
- National Geographic: Chimps on the Edge
- Project Nim
*Aside from Opening Doors by Gary Ferguson and A Chimpanzee Tale by Karen Young, which are ordered through our own online gift shop, Save the Chimps has no affiliation with the sale of the books on this page.
