beautifully design and illustrated work by a woman who has devoted her life to chimpanzee rescue and understanding...(...)--this is for all children

Jane Goodall has written a wonderful resource for anyone interested in primate behavior. This book covers every aspect of chimpanzee behavior from feeding, social structure, individual chimp bios, chimp warfare, and everything else you could ever want to know. If you're interested in chimpanzee behavior, then this book is a must read!

I am the major editor of this work. I just wanted to inform interested parties that this Encyclopedia has sold 1500 copies in the first 4 weeks it's been available.

The Great Apes - a brilliant book full of fantastic photographs of our next of kin. A must read for anyone interested in great apes or the people who study and protect them.

my thoughts of this wonderful warm story is that what a incrediably woman Jane must be. We had this book as children and was the one that was favoured by all in our family. Its is a story of feeling and close bond of her and her family. To put yourself and family out with nature and the wild bush must be invigourating. I am only sorry that my children have never felt what her son did. It is a story of great respect and courage, I congratulate you Jane.

Just so you know, Jane van Lawick-Goodall is more commonly known as Jane Goodall - yes, the one that works with chimpazees. Hugo van Lawick-Goodall was the photographer as well as her husband during the chimpazee studies.

This book manages to make 3 animals that most folks do not have a lot of love for and make them interesting reading. I don't particularly like hyenas and the description of how they eat their prey alive is unnerving but it is also fascinating. Hyenas (as well as jackals and wild dogs) kill their prey with a method known as rapid disembowelment. The prey dies very quickly as opposed to the methods lions (as well as cheetahs and leopards) use which is suffocation. Suffocation can take at least ten minutes if not longer to kill the prey. I won't presume to know which is the most painful way, but rapid disembowelment would seem more efficent from the predator's point of view.

They spend over two years studying spotted hyenas, golden jackals and wild dogs. The information about the social structure the animals participate in as well as their hunting methods are described in great detail. You don't have to be a zoologist or have specialized training to appreciate this book, but I think being an animal lover would be a great help.

One of the more interesting parts to me was when M's van Lawick-Goodall talks about taking her baby son along on this expedition. She details how she tried to make it as safe as possible for Grublin and how he grew up with the animals.

The black and white photographs are excellent. The bat eared foxes are quite photogenic, as well as the cheetah cubs at play.The pictures of the books subjects are equally good.

M's van Lawick-Goodall does an excellent great job giving the reader a different viewpoint of these much maligned animals. Read the book and learn all about these "innocent killers".

jane goodall is an amazing women! her books are unbievalble! im only 11 yrs. old and im really interested in her.she risked her life to safe chimps. i hope she is happy in heaven and i hope she knows what a great person she is!

Collaboratively written by Helen and Clive Dorman under the auspices of The Jane Goodall Institute, Okomi: The New Baby is the first in a series about the relationship between a chimpanzee infant and its mother. A warm and gentle story for beginning readers, with thoughtful color illustrations by Tony Hutchings, and a deep sympathy for humans' primate relatives. Also highly recommended are the three other titles in this outstanding series for very young readers, Okomi And The Tickling Game; Okomi: Plays In The Leaves; and Okomi Climbs A Tree.

This book has wonderful historical information relating to the first accounts of orangutans and other animals like apes and chimpanzees. It also recounts how society's perception of these wonderful animals has changed over time, and how oragutans tie into our concept of human evolution. There a tons of just great photos and little stories.