The Year Of The Gorilla

Author : Dawn Prince-Hughes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521500
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorillas Among Us written by Dawn Prince-Hughes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the days of a gorilla family, offering insight into their diet, communication, behavior, and recreation, provoking human introspection.

Author : Peggy Rathmann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399242600
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Night, Gorilla (oversized board book) written by Peggy Rathmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This roomy trim size is perfect for sharing with groups and lap sitters, and will stand up to years of repeat readings.

Author : John Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681776995
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forest in the Clouds written by John Fowler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas. In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the adventure and promise of learning the science of studying mountain gorillas amid the beauty of Central Africa’s cloud forest, Fowler soon learns the cold harsh realities of life inside Fossey’s enclave ten thousand feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she brings new students in to serve her most pressing need—to hang on to the remote research camp that has become her mountain home. Increasingly bizarre behavior has targeted Fossey for extrication by an ever-growing group of detractors—from conservation and research organizations to the Rwandan government. Amid the turmoil, Fowler must abandon his own research assignments to assuage the troubled Fossey as she orders him on illegal treks across the border into Zaire, over volcanoes, in search of missing gorillas, and to serve as surrogate parent to an orphaned baby ape in preparation for its traumatic re-introduction into a wild gorilla group. This riveting story is the only first-person account from inside Dian Fossey’s beleaguered camp. Fowler must come to grips with his own aspirations, career objectives, and disappointments as he develops the physical endurance to keep up with mountain gorillas over volcanic terrain in icy downpours above ten thousand feet, only to be affronted by the frightening charges of indignant giant silverbacks or to be treed by aggressive forest buffalos. Back in camp, he must nurture the sensitivity and patience needed for the demands of rehabilitating an orphaned baby gorilla. A Forest in the Clouds takes the armchair adventurer on a journey into an extraordinary world that now only exists in the memories of the very few who knew it.

Author : Clare Hodgson Meeker
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
ISBN 13 : 1541571991
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Gorilla written by Clare Hodgson Meeker and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartwarming true story chronicles what happened after a mother gorilla gave birth for the first time and then walked away from her newborn baby at Seattle's Woodland Park. The dedicated staff worked tirelessly to find innovative ways for mother and baby to build a relationship. The efforts were ultimately successful, as baby Yola bonded with her mother and the rest of the family group.

Author : George B. Schaller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226736474
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Gorilla written by George B. Schaller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Congo-Rwanda-Uganda border.

Author : Nancy Roe Pimm
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0984155449
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colo's Story written by Nancy Roe Pimm and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity, from her birth at the Columbus Zoo to her development into an adult, her progeny, and her distinction as the oldest living gorilla in the world.

Author : Anthony Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406313277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorilla written by Anthony Browne and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely girl receives a friendly gorilla for her birthday.

Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060891025
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorillas written by Seymour Simon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real gorillas are gentle, social animals who live together peacefully in family groups. A renowned science writer explores what makes these remarkable and often misunderstood creatures so fascinating. Full-color photos.

Author : George B. Schaller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of the gorilla : With line drawings by the author written by George B. Schaller and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692275009
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impenetrable Forest written by Thor Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world's population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers to develop an ecotourism program for the newly-formed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Thoroughly researched and beautifully told, Hanson's story blends natural history with cultural insight to place the forest and the gorillas in the context of modern Africa. The Impenetrable Forest offers a rare glimpse into the world of mountain gorillas, and the human cultures that surround them. A must-read for anyone interested in gorilla tracking, endangered species, or travel to Uganda.