Walking With the Great Apes : Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas
by Sy Montgomery
Here is the story of three gifted women trained by the famed Louis Leakey. This book, "a sensitive and revealing contribution to the legend of a unique sisterhood" (Chicago Tribune), tells of three women who each gave her mature life to the love, study, and defense of another primate species.

Koko's Kitten
by Dr. Francine Patterson
Koko is a famous sign-language-speaking gorilla. This is the true story of her friendship with a kitten . "Patterson and Cohn let readers see . . . the gentle mind that wanted something to love and be loved by."

Koko, A Talking Gorilla (VHS)
by Dr. Francine Patterson
Funny, touching stories about Koko's learning experiences; her fascination with animals; her friendship with another gorilla, Michael; her relationship with her human "mother"; and her mischievous sense of humor. Essential viewing for anyone interested in intelligence, communication, and the nature of humanity.

Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
by Roger Fouts>
For three decades, primatologist Roger Fouts has been involved in language studies of the chimpanzee, the animal most closely related to human beings. Among his subjects was the renowned Washoe, who was "endowed with a powerful need to learn and communicate," and who developed an extraordinary vocabulary in American sign language. Another chimpanzee, Fouts writes, "never made a grammatical error," which turned a whole school of linguistic theory upside down. While reporting these successes, Fouts also notes that chimpanzees are regularly abused in laboratory settings and that in the wild their number has fallen from 5,000,000 to fewer than 175,000 in the last century.

Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature
by Craig Stanford
Engaging, enlightening, and eloquent, Significant Others tells of our closest cousins and the scientists who study them. Author Craig B. Stanford is co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Center and knows as much as anyone about field research on the great ape. His prose combines a vivid, almost poetic descriptive sensibility with a refreshingly deadpan rationality too often missing from writings on endangered or threatened species. Covering a wide range of topics from tool use to evolutionary psychology to the controversy over language in nonhumans.

Kanzi : The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Although we share 99 percent of our genetic makeup with chimpanzees and even more humanlike characteristics with bonobos (chimpanzees), language sets us apart from our hairy brothers and sisters. Ape researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her coauthor document her years of psychological studies, laboratory work, and life experiences with bonobos. Savage-Rumbaugh was able to train a bonobo named Kanzi to communicate using a lexigram--a keyboard of symbols representing set words or actions.

Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
An enthralling testament to one of the longest field studies of primates, covering fifteen years in the lives of four gorilla families in Central Africa.

Reflections of Eden : My Years With the Orangutans of Borneo
by Birute M. F. Galdikas
Galdikas is a "trimate," one of three women who devoted themselves to the study of great apes in the wild. Her zeal for learning about orangutans emulates Jane Goodall's fascination with chimpanzees and the late Dian Fossey's dedication to gorillas. Not only is Galdikas a brilliant, courageous, and persevering scientist, but she is also a wonderfully engaging and generous writer.

Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
by Frans de Waal
Bonobos may look like chimps, but they are actually even closer to us--far more upright, physically, for a start. Furthermore, where chimpanzees hunt, fight, and politic like mad, bonobos are peaceful, often ambisexual, and matriarchal.

The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
by Terrence W. Deacon
The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them?

Chimpanzee Politics : Power and Sex Among Apes
by Frans De Waal
The great apes, like humans, can recognize themselves in mirrors. They communicate by sound and gesture, form bands along what can only be called political lines, and sometimes engage in what is very clearly organized warfare.

The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates
by Noel Rowe
Rowe, who is director of Primate Conservation, Inc., has spent the last 10 years studying and photographing primates around the world. The result of those years is this guide, which is described as "useful for students and primatologists" but not all encompassing. The number of identified species of primates has increased from 180 in 1960 to the 234 that are included in the guide.

The Primate Societies
by Barbara B. Smuts
An excellent complilation on primate behavior. Many interesting and readable chapters discussing numerous aspects of primate social life. There is one chapter for virtually every primate genus, and many more general chapters as well.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors : A Search for Who We Are
by Drs. Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
The authors contend that no sharp line divides animals and humans. It makes a powerful case for man's enduring kinship with chimpanzees.

The Dragons of Eden : Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Dr. Carl Sagan
His genius writing style makes scientific technical writing accessible to practically anyone. Sagan's theories on the evolution of human intellgence are thought provoking; he has answers to many questions that are, for the most part, untouched.

AnimalWatch : Behavior, Biology, and Beauty
by Jane Goodall
a series of capsule essays on various aspects of animal behavior. Presented in five chapters, divided into broad topics such as predators and prey and courtship and reproduction, the attractive photographs clearly depict the behavior described in the accompanying essay and place it in the context of the animals' relationships with their environment.

In the Shadow of Man
by Jane Goodall
Goodall's classic account of primate behavior combines a landmark scientific study with a fascinating adventure story of a determined young woman's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before.

My Life With the Chimpanzees
by Jane Goodall
The celebrated naturalist recounts her childhood wish to work with animals and her excursions into the wilds of Africa, where she performed history-making studies on the leopards, lions, and, especially, chimpanzees there. From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild.

Through a Window : My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by Jane Goodall
The dramatic saga of 30 years in the life of Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principle residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman. Goodall paints a vivid portrait of our closest relatives in one of the best books about animal behavior ever written.

The Chimpanzee Family Book (The Animal Family Series)
by Jane Goodall
British naturalist Jane Goodall provides an intimate portrait of a group of chimpanzees in the jungles of Africa which she has studied for many years.

With Love : Ten Heartwarming Stories of Chimpanzees in the Wild
by Jane Goddell
Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Chimpanzee Cultures
by Richard W. Wrangham, W. C. McGrew, Frans B. M. De Waal, Paul G. Haltne
Authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos compare the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, in captive and wild groups, and demonstrate that nature and culture play important roles in the behavior of the Pan species.

The Language of Animals : The Language of Animals (Scientific American Focus Book)
by Stephen Hart, Franz De Waal
Hart, a biologist, zoological researcher and science journalist, takes a cautious stance on animal language, summing up the wide range of animal communication.

Chimpanzee Material Culture : Implications for Human Evolution
by W. C. McGrew
He challenges the usual belief that human culture is unique in ALL respects by showing that variations in chimp tool kits are comparable to variations in human tool assemblages. A thoughtful, well-researched, and interesting study.

Understanding Chimpanzees (Special Publication)
by by Paul G. Heltne, Linda A. Marquardt
Thirty chapters from many of the world's chimpanzee specialists. Topics include social behavior and ecology in the field, the difference in cultural traditions between populations, behavior in captivity, and the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees in language acquisition. Strong coverage is given to bonobos, a sibling species not well known to science or the public. Lots of whimsical and informative photographs.

Peacemaking Among Primates
by Frans De Waal, Frans Dewaal
Examines the ways in which aggression and reconciliation are both necessary, complementary aspects of primate social relationships; describes these aspects in chimpanzee, rhesus monkey, stumptail monkeys, bonobos monkeys; points out implications for their human relatives.

Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor
Kanzi, a male bonobo (an ape sometimes called a pygmy chimpanzee), has been under the care of language researcher Savage-Rumbaugh since infancy. Over a period of 18 years, he has learned to communicate his wants and to respond to spoken English by means of pictorial symbols called lexigrams. His communicative capability is about equal to that of a two-and-a-half-year-old human child.

The Language Instinct/How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker
Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT and well-known for popularizing Noam Chomsky's revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, author Steven Pinker shows that language is a human instinct, hardwired into our brains by evolution, and explains how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolves.

How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science.
Text Excerpt: Read the first chapter of this title.

Language Learnability and Language Development
by Steven Pinker

Nim/a Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language
by Herbert S. Terrace

Speaking of Apes : A Critical Anthology of Two-Way Communication With Man
by Sebeok

Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees
by R. Allen Gardner, Beatrix T. Gardner, Thomas E. Van Cantfort (Editor)
Here the Gardners and co-workers are able to give more detail of their experiments in Project Washoe. They give the procedures and the accumulated evidence of chimp learning and communication.

The Year of the Gorilla
by George B. Schaller
A sensitive and articulate observer, [Schaller] is at his best when he is describing the forest itself . . . . This is an exciting book. Although Schaller feels that this is 'not an adventure book,' few readers will be able to agree.

Primates : The Amazing World of Lemurs, Monkeys, and Apes
by Barbara Sleeper
An incredible visual journey for an exciting glimpse of gorillas, monkeys, apes, and other primates at home in the jungle.

Primate Conservation : The Role of Zoological Parks (Special Topics in Primatology Series)
by Janette Wallis (Editor)
A valuable resource for conservationists, zoo personnel, and all primatologists working to save threatened or endangered primates

Emotion, Memory and Behavior : Studies on Human and Nonhuman Primates (Taniguchi Symposia on Brain Sciences No 18)
by Teruo Nakajima (Editor), Ono Taketoshi (Editor)
The first part of this comprehensive volume examines emotion, including the limbic system, animal models of autism, the neuronal mechanism of emotion and behavior, and a PET study on depression. The second section focuses on the brain mechanisms of memory and covers the hippocampal place code, long-term and short-term memory, and neuro-psychological studies on amnesic patients. The final part covers brain mechanisms of normal and abnormal behavior, visual processing within the temporal cortex, perception of geometric illusions, inhibition and facilitation of visual-motor links, self-mutilation, and a neuroanatomical study on cognitive aging.

Primate Brain Evolution
by Este Armstrong (Editor)

From Learning to Love : The Selected Papers of H.F. Harlow (Centennial Psychology Series)
by Harry Frederick Harlow, Clara Mears Harlow (Editor)
A comprehensive collection. From Learning to Love is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, child care specialists, and parents who want to understand how their children develop.

Language in Primates : Perspectives and Implications
by Judith De Luce, Hugh T. Wilder

Language & Intelligence in Monkeys & Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives
by Sue Parker amp; Kathleen Gibson
These volumes should be on the bookshelf of the educated layperson and scientist who wants to learn more about the evolutionary roots of behavioral processes and competencies that may no longer be held to be uniquely human.

Reaching into Thought : The Minds of the Great Apes
by Anne E. Russon (Editor), Kim A. Bard (Editor), Sue Taylor Parker (Editor)
In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the Great Apes are capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered uniquely human. They show these high-level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, imitation, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and proto-culture itself.

Among the Orangutans : The Birute Galdikas Story (The Great Naturalists)
by Evelyn Gallardo
A look at the work of the world's foremost authority on the life and behavior of orangutans discusses Galdikas's twenty-year experience living among the orangutans in the jungles of Borneo, recounting her adventures, discoveries, and obstacles to her work

A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond
by William H. Calvin
This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no 'What if' and 'Why me?'