Bibliography: Print

An annotated list of printed works covering free-living chimpanzees, the use of chimpanzees in research, and related ethical issues. In an attempt to foster comprehensive discussion, some of these books contain opposing points of view and do not imply endorsement by Project R&R.

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• Free-living chimpanzees

  • In the Shadow of Man
  • My Family Album:
  • Chimpanzee Travels:
  • The Reason for Hope:
  • 40 Years at Gombe:
  • In Praise of Primates
  • Through A Window:
  • My Life with the Chimpanzees
  • The Chimpanzees of Gombe:

• The use of chimpanzees in research

  • Progress in Ape Research
  • Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language
  • Almost Human
  • Chimpanzees:
  • The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary:
  • Learning to Love:
  • Lucy: Growing up Human
  • Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human
  • Flyboy: The All-True Adventures of a NASA Space Chimp
  • Brutal Kinship
  • Animal Bodies, Human Minds:
  • Folk Physics for Apes:
  • The Great Ape Project Census:
  • Behavioral Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
  • Infant Chimpanzee & Human Child:
  • The Ape and the Sushi Master:
  • The River:
  • Mentality of Apes
  • Chimpanzee Politics
  • Psychological Well-Being of Non Human Primates
  • Primate Cognition
  • Chimpanzees in Research:
  • Next of Kin
  • Demonic Males
  • Great Ape Societies
  • Reaching into Thought:
  • The Monkey Wars
  • Kanzi:
  • Chimpanzee Cultures
  • Primate Social Conflict
  • Peace Making Among Primates
  • Understanding Chimpanzees
  • Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees
  • Housing, Care & Psychological Well-being of Captive & Laboratory Primates
  • Silent Partners:
  • The Pygmy Chimpanzee:

• Related ethical issues

  • Naked Empress:
  • A Chimpanzee Tale
  • Significant Others:
  • Great Apes and Humans:
  • Rattling the Cage:
  • Visions Of Caliban:
  • The Great Ape Project:
  • Eating Apes
  • The Third Chimpanzee

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