Links & Books
Links
Living Links
www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS
The Living Links Center (LLC) at Emory University seeks
to shed light on human behavioral evolution by studying
mankind's primate relatives. On its Web site, learn about
current research, browse an audio and video library, download
academic publications, and more. (See our
interview with
LLC director Frans de Waal.)
Great Ape Trust of Iowa
www.greatapetrust.org
The Great Ape Trust of Iowa is a leading center for the
study and conservation of great apes. Find detailed
information on members of the ape family, download podcasts,
view video clips, and much more.
Mammals: Bonobo (Pygmy Chimp)
www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-bonobo.html
The San Diego Zoo offers this Web page on bonobo
habitat and behavior, including a photo slide show and video
clip of bonobos in captivity.
Bonobo
www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/bonobo
Read an online fact sheet about the bonobo on this Web
site from the African Wildlife Foundation.
Bonobo Initiative
www.bonobo.org
Find bonobo-related photo galleries, news, and
interactive activities on this Web site from the Bonobo
Conservation Initiative.
Great Apes Survival Project
www.unep.org/grasp
The Great Apes Survival Project Partnership is a U.N.
program working to stop the threat of extinction faced by
gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans in the wild. On
its Web site, find information on current conservation
projects, photo galleries, links to online donation pages, and
more.
Great Ape Action Fund
www.primate-sg.org/gaecf.htm
On this Web site from the Great Ape Action Fund, read
articles on bonobo conservation efforts and find information
on great apes in the wild.
A Life With Kanzi
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/lifewithkanzi.shtml
BBC Radio 4 presents this half-hour report on Sue
Savage-Rumbaugh's work with Kanzi, a bonobo with which she has
worked for over 20 years. (See our
audio slide show
with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh.)
Frans de Waal
www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Oct/hour2_100705.html
NPR's "Science Friday" offers this archived radio
interview with primatologist Frans de Waal about the
connections between humans and apes.
Books
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human
by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin. Wiley Press, 1996.
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
by Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting. University of California
Press, 1997.
Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
by Linda Marchant, Christophe Boesch, and Gottfried Hohmann.
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Our Inner Ape
by Frans de Waal. Riverhead Books, 2005.
