Great Ape Odyssey

by Biruté M.F. Galdikas

Book Overview

Mythologized since the days of Aristotle, few animals have captured the popular imagination as the great apes, here identified as gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans. Yet, our understanding of these apes as the blood kin of humans - nearly identical in biological composition and strikingly similar in some behaviours - has been much disputed throughout history. It has taken over a century of research and scientific discoveries to dispel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081095575X
• ISBN13: 9780810955752
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.6" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary