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In the Shadow of Man
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Jane Goodall (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 8,928 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
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Vanessa Woods (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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A Beautiful Truth
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The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist
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Gorillas in the Mist
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The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
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Benjamin Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 2,660 ratings
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The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)
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Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 206,392 ratings
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Half Brother
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Kenneth Oppel (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 6,634 ratings
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Poison Oracle
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The Finite Chimps
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Tom Conrad (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Jennie: A Novel
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
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Eliot Schrefer (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 6,144 ratings
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
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Opening Doors: Carole Noon and Her Dream to Save the Chimps
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Gary Ferguson (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Orangutanka: A Story in Poems
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Theory of Bastards
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Great Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence (Zoo and Aquarium Biology and Conservation Series)
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Benjamin B. Beck (Editor)
3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Eva
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Great Apes
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Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 126,105 ratings
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Visions Of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People
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The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees
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Andrew R. Halloran (contributor)
3.73 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Talk to Me
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T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
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Andrew Westoll (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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Jane Goodall (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 3,245 ratings
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Monkey Station
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3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Sims
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F. Paul Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Boy Who Spoke Chimp
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Chimp and the Clown
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Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
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Lion Shaped Mountain
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Chimp and Chump
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After Roy
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Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Farmer Hoo and the Baboons
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Monkey in the Middle
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The Voyage of QV66
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Rescue!
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The Seventh Cousin
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3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Magic Island
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Vagabond Ape
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Huntley Nutley and the Missing Link
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4.66 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Doomsday Carrier
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3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Human Apes
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Boy and the Monkey
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Saving Abbie
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Thud!
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Gorilla Gorilla
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Mr. Heff and Mr. Ho: The Story of Mr. Floweryfield and the Organ Grinder
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Your Dad's a Monkey
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Chimney Top Lane
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Chimney Top Lane
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The Truth about Gorillas: 2
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FRIEND MONKEY
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