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Little Sibu, an orangutan, lives happily with his mother Hati and little sister Baka in tropical rainforest, swinging through the treetops and eating fruit.Yet when he turns seven years old, Little Sibu must learn to make his way in the world alone, as all male orangutans must.

Sally Grindley's portrayal of orangutan life is factual, while the illustrations of rainforest life by John Butler are vivid and accurate.LITTLE SIBU can make the endangered orangutan - and its equally endangered rainforest habitat - accessible to young readers. ... Read more

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Gorgeous Book for Children About Orangutans
Life couldn't be more perfect for Little Sibu, an orangutan. He scampers along treetops in the Indonesian rainforest daily, while his Mother, Hati, watches over him. However, when Little Sibu turns seven-years-old, Hati knows that it is time for him to get out on his own, and not rely on her so much, as soon he will have to live on his own, the way other male orangutans do. Soon, as Little Sibu sees that Hati will not always do things for him, he begins to build his own nests, and find his own food, proving that he, too, can live on his own.

I am a huge animal lover, and find orangutans to be gorgeous creatures, so I was ecstatic to find Sally Grindley's LITTLE SIBU. The story contained within the pages is lovely, and teaches a bit about orangutans, and their temperament, while John Butler's gorgeous illustrations truly bring the story to life. This is a fantastic book for anyone looking to teach their children about animals, as LITTLE SIBU contains a special fact page about orangutans in the back of the book.

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We've all heard that chimpanzees are our closest relatives - that, in fact, they share 98% of their genes with us. But what evidence supports these often-repeated commonplaces? Very little, concludes physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz. In his keenly insightful demolition of conventional wisdom on the family relationships between apes and humans, Schwartz provides a fresh examination of fossil evidence, modern anatomy and physiology, and DNA. He argues that it is not chimpanzees or other African apes that are humankind's closest cousins, but Asian orangutans. The result is a compelling challenge to what we think we know about the origins of humans, and about the pursuit of science.In this thoroughly revised edition of The Red Ape, Schwartz analyzes the myriad fossil discoveries made since the publication of the first edition. He reveals the embarrassing fact that orangutan and human teeth are so similar that they have commonly been misidentified for each other in the fossil record, even by experts. New material provocatively addresses whether molecules (DNA) are more reliable than fossils and anatomy in assessing evolutionary relationships. Numerous new plates and drawings illustrate the text. ... Read more

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Iconoclastic.
Schwartz, who it appears is disliked by everyone in the field, raises some interesting questions and points out some tautologies among molecular paleontologists.

1. First, and most cleverly, he points out that molecular studies tend to validate relationships that have heretofore been based on morphology.

2. Second, molecular paleontologists required morphologic studies and conventional paleontology to help them "set the clock" for their own molecular clock.

3. Molecular distances among anthropoids are too narrow to be statistically significant. In those rare cases where they may be statistically significant, genetic mutations from earlier ancestors may not be the reason.

4. Regulatory genes are more important than structural genes. Although it is said that human DNA and chimpanzee DNA varies by less than 1 percent, one would not argue that morphologically and behaviorally humans and chimpanzees are 99% alike.

5. Regulatory genes are more important than structural genes. Molecular studies claiming that human DNA and chimpanzee DNA varies by less than 1 percent did not distinguish between regulary genes and structural genes.

6. Having said all that, Schwartz feels comfortable arguing that morphology and behavioral findings are key to understanding relationships among and between species.

7. Schwartz puts forth a solid argument that morphologically and behaviorally, the orangutan is more comfortable at home with humans than are chimpanzees and gorillas. Or are humans more comfortable at home with orangutans. That reminds me: I need to look at "Every Which Way But Loose" again.

"Charming"
It is odd to describe a book of science, especially a book which is in good part a polemic, as "charming".I do this because the author is so likeable, his writing is good, and he is a believer in the kind of close observation which has characterized the history of science.I tend to trust his impatience with so many of his fellow paleontologists.

The problem is that the DNA evidence supports the chimpanzee as man's closest cousin, and Schwartz just does not know enough to discuss the DNA evidence in any satisfactory way."The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins was copyrighted in 2004, a year before "The Red Ape".Dawkins discusses many of the difficulties in using DNA evidence, but there is no need to assume a priori who is related to whom, as Schwartz seems to say.Moreover, one can get some kind of probabilistic answer, so it would be nice to know whether DNA evidence assigns any significant chance of the orangutan being our closest cousin.

How to make a contradictory hypothesis but never ever argue why it is correct
The last ~20 years of molecular evidence strongly supports a Homo+Pan sister grouping. Schwartz is (all but) alone amongst primatologists by stating that morphological evidence does not support this grouping, and instead supports a Homo+Pongo sister grouping.

How does Schwartz explain away the molecular data? Does he run a total evidence analysis combining molecular and morphological data? Does he try to find bigger, better molecular analyses to run on primates to show that the genes already sequenced aren't telling the real story? Does he scour the palaeontology literature of morphological phylogenetics and find comparable cases of molecular v. morphological discordance and make an appeal to reason that if, say, artiodactyls are confusing, then maybe primates are too?

OR does he make an appeal to the 1950s science of Willi Hennig and claim that molecular analyses can not be cladistical because they doesn't code character states as being 'primitive' or 'derived' before the analysis occurs?

I read this book to find out how Schwartz would explain away hundreds of molecular phylogenetic papers that place Homo+Pan as sister taxa. Hennig-worship is basically all he does.

Well, that and also write for 40 pages about how molecular analyses conducted in the 1970s and 1980s disagreed with each other. Which might have made sense back in 1987 with the first publication of this book, but, seriously? In 2004 he is going to argue against the scientific correctness of molecular studies published 20 years previously?

Therefore, the only conclusion I can come to regarding Schwartz's position is that he doesn't have scientific evidence supporting his position. To go slightly further with this rant, he doesn't spend any pages trying to explain why both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA BOTH say that Homo+Pan is a valid group. These two forms of DNA inherit in similar ways but are independent of each other as far as mutation types / rates are concerned. If Homo+Pan was an artificial arrangement, then there should be discordance between these two independent sources of molecular information. There is not.

What does Schwartz say about mitochondrial DNA? Amongst other things, that it is almost useless because it can only give trustworthy results on phylogenetic events within the last 10 million years ago. (p 194-195). I don't know many molecular systematists but all of them were puzzled when I informed them of this. Maybe Schwartz knows more than they do about how mitochondrial DNA works?

I am willing to accept that all of the modern great apes have interesting morphological features in common with Homo. I think that a cladogram using morphological evidence, if tweaked slightly, can support a Homo+Gorilla clade as easily as a Homo+Pongo clade, if not more so.

But for me to ignore molecular data is going to take a lot more discussion than just telling me "it's not good." Schwartz fails in this task, and for that, this book is really just a contradictory hypothesis that fails to refute the dominant hypothesis.

The Good: Well illustrated, retells the basic story of the last 100 years of palaeoanthropology fairly well.

The Bad: Is a dumbed-down version of the authors' primary articles, which might explain why it does such a bad job of promoting his hypothesis.

The Ugly: Never gives a scientifically valid reason why his alternative hypothesis should be accepted and why all molecular data should be ignored. Never fully explains which fossil ape species are supposed to be related to who, just says they're all hominids. Sections about molecular systematics are either written poorly or contain inaccuracies. When comparing morphology amongst apes to provide evidence for the Homo+Pongo clade, does little to show that outgroup taxa never show similar morphology.

Buy or rent: RENT, unless you want a book on your shelf that will make your primatologist friends laugh OR you have an axe to grind against modern evolutionary biology OR you are John Grehan.

PS I am adding the tag "Chewbacca defence" because I think that is a valid tag for this book. The author attempts to explain why molecular evidence can not be trusted by ...mentioning that orangutans and humans have sex in a similar manner, and then hoping that that makes your head hurt so you stop thinking and accept his hypothesis. Logic FAIL.

Update to a earlier edition
I read the earlier edition of this book, and have now read the update. The author's premise is that morphology (anatomical similarity) links people and orangutans, despite genetic and molecular studies that say that chimps (and, more specifically, bonobos) are our closest relatives. What to make of this? The most likely answer is that we are most closely related to bonobos and chimps, but Schwartz's arguments cannot be dismissed without consideration. The morphology is certainly relevant, and the question is how it competes with the molecular evidence.

To argue Schwartz' point from a slightly different perspective, all genetic and molecular measures of relatedness are really tests of hypotheses against data. When you test hypotheses against data it is possible that none, one, or more than one hypothesis is consistent with the data. This is often lost in a claim that one hypothesis is the best match to the data.The best match needn't be the only hypothesis consistent with the data, and the difference between the best and the second (or third, or ...) best match need not be statistically significant. Further, the result can depend on the assumptions made.

Suppose, for example, that a rigorous, molecular, test of relatedness between creatures says there is a 50% chance that critter a is the closest relative, a 30% chance that critter b is, a 15% chance that critter c is, and a 5% chance that some other critter is. The best bet would be on critter a, but there would only be even odds that that was the correct answer. If other evidence not considered in the statistics supported critter b, that should be a serious consideration.

Schwartz objects that the approach taken in most studies is tainted because the molecular comparisons tend to assume that the orang is a more distant relative, and set up the molecular tests based on that assumption. He argues that molecular tests should be done with an assumption of an old world monkey as a known ancestor, and all ape/human relationships uncertain. To do otherwise biases the results against a orang-human link.

A molecular survey done with a wider range of options, and a morphological overlay on that, might result in an answer different than the accepted story. The odds are currently against it, but the theory deserves fair consideration. Schwartz's argument is not trivial or silly. It is a serious argument of the sort that forces science to answer the right, hard questions before accepting a particular theory as likely to be true. The most likely result is vindication of the prevailing (chimp-human) theory. But there is still the possibility of an upset!

And that's why I'm a scientist ...

Great fun - and what if he's right?
This is a tremendously thrilling, rewarding book to read. This book will make you think.

We are told that chimpanzees are our closest relatives. We are not usually shown how the software that 'keeps confirming' this conclusion sometimes generates alternative trees that split the great apes in three: the chimps, the gorillas, and then a particularly bright and flexible clade that split into humans and orangutans. These alternate interpretations are 'obviously wrong', so the researcher finds the 'wrong assumptions' that can be changed to make it come out right, with chimps and humans side by side.

But when you look at the morphology, feature by feature humans and orangs either share some aspect that chimps and gorillas don't, or we're both the 'most derived' members of the great apes. Fossil hominid teeth and skulls and fossil orang teeth and skulls are similar enough that many fossils now labeled as fossil orang were once labeled as fossil hominid.

Humans and orangs are the only great apes that grow long body hair, albeit in different places.

Gorillas and chimpanzees are obligate knuckle walkers. That means that they have a system of tendons and bone shapes that snaps the heavily callused knuckle to the ground when they walk on all fours (as they usually do). Gorillas and chimpanzees are born with knuckles predisposed to callus.

Humans and orangutans show no trace of this complex adaptation. We are not born with incipient calluses, we do not have tendons that snap our hands into a fist when we stretch.

Schwartz argues that if we weren't talking about human relatives, any trained morphologist would say it's us and orangs over here, and knuckle walkers over there. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Malay Archipelago; Natural history; Ethnology; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; Nature / General; Travel / Asia / Southeast; Travel / Australia ... Read more

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This abundantly illustrated look at orangutan life tells the story of one of the most fascinating members of the great ape family. In Orangutans, conservation biologist Junaidi Payne presents an informative and compelling description of the lives of orangutans, from their habitat and behavior to the complex intricacies of orangutan society, with discussions of such topics as the differences between wild and captive creatures and characteristics of age and sex. He provides information on orangutan conservation and rehabilitation as well, discussing threats to orangutan welfare and strategies for safeguarding orangutans in the future. Extraordinary color photographs by award-winning photographer Cede Prudente reveal little-seen aspects of orangutan life in the rainforest and showcase the breathtaking landscapes of Borneo and Sumatra. Orangutans also includes a map of orangutan distribution and information on where to see orangutans in the wild.

Orangutan tours attract thousands of visitors each year. This stunning book offers a souvenir or a preview. Animal lovers, natural history students, fans of wildlife photography, and those interested in ecology and conservation will also find a place for Orangutans on their bookshelves or coffee tables. ... Read more

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Great book and great buy!
I bought this book for my grad. student daughter who spent 9 months in Indonesia studying orangutans. It's a great book and a great bargain. Many of the book's wonderful photographs are similar to photos she emailed home. This book helped us "experience" her great adventure.

Wimps out where it counts the most
This book has gorgeous photos that will make you fall in love with orangutans - the people of the forest. It also has very good explanations about the animal and forest characteristics. HOWEVER, the authors have missed a huge opportunity to move people to protect this endangered great ape. The book's conclusion is very disappointing, in that it pretty much lets the oil palm companies off the hook for their wanton destruction of the orangutan's rainforest. (Since this book promotes the WWF perspective, one has to wonder if some corporate "partnership" is involved here.)

If someone wants an accurate portrayal of this spectacular animal -- and the spectacular annihilation of its habitat -- I strongly recommend "Thinkers of the Jungle: The Orangutan Report" by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits, and Jay Ullal. Be warned: "Thinkers" has some disturbing pictures of the cruelty being inflicted, to this day, on our close relatives. There is no corporate greenwash in this book.Thinkers of the Jungle ... Read more

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For more than 25 years, renowned primatologistBirut Galdikas has lived among the orangutans of Borneo, studyingtheir habits, defending them against loggers and poachers, andnurturing their orphaned youngsters.Now, with this extraordinarypictorial essay, Galdikas brings to life her work with these shy andendangered red apes. Taking readers to her remote rainforestheadquarters, Galdikas draws on Karl Ammann's unparalleled photographsto present intimate portraits of the individual orangutans she's cometo know and offers rare glimpses of their behavior in the wild.Withan introduction by famed chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall-who, likeGaldikas and Dian Fossey, is a Louis Leakey protge-this is a superband revelatory volume for nature and animal lovers everywhere.100photographs in full color, 1 map, 10 11/4 x 10 11/4" BIRUTM. F. GALDIKAS, who received her Ph.D. from UCLA, teaches at SimonFraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and at Indonesia'sUniversi tas Nasional. She is president of the Orangutan FoundationInternational in Los Angeles.NANCY BRIGGS, who has long worked withGaldikas in both Los Angeles and Borneo, is professor ofcommunications at California State University, Long Beach, anddirector of education at the Orangutan Foundation International.KarlAmmann is an award-winning wildlife photographer based in Kenya.Amazon.com Review
In the 1960s, the legendary paleoanthropologistLouis Leakey encouraged a trio of remarkable woman scientists--JaneGoodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas--to study the world'sgreat primates. In her memoir Reflections of Eden,written long after her fellow "trimates" published theirs, Galdikasdescribed her efforts at Camp Leakey to rehabilitate ex-captiveorangutans and release them into the nearby Borneo rainforest.

Those rehabilitation efforts became the center of controversies thatswirl around Galdikas and the organization she helped found, OrangutanFoundation International. A debate about the effectiveness ofrehabilitation reached a fever pitch in the late 1990s with thepublication of several articles and books about Galdikas by Canadiannovelist Linda Spalding. In A Dark Place in theJungle, Spalding suggests that Galdikas's efforts in the nameof conservation may in fact harm wild orangutan populations. Galdikasherself is characterized as an imperious and careless scientist, whichno doubt played a role in Galdikas's decision in July 1999 to sueSpalding for libel.

What then are we to make of this book byGaldikas and her longtime collaborator Nancy Briggs? There is nodispute whatsoever about their primary message: orangutans areseriously endangered. Palm oil plantations, bush fires, and otherintense human pressures are destroying millions of acres of orangutanhabitat. The recently deposed Indonesian government of Suharto wasnotoriously corrupt and adopted policies that led to large-scaledeforestation, although its legacy is treated gingerly by Galdikas,who lives there when she isn't teaching at the University of BritishColumbia. The close-up photographs that accompany their text showorangutans as full of personality, mischief, and devotion ashumans. Perhaps, as Spalding suggests, that's part of the problem. Itmay be too easy to project anthropocentric values onto orangutans,which, after all, share 97 percent of their genetic heritage withhumans.

It is difficult to judge either case on its merits sincethe books share similar flaws: neither presents notes or bibliographyto document its arguments. So read them both. The gravely threatenedorangutans deserve as much attention as they can get. --PeteHolloran ... Read more

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orangutan oddyssey - very good service
The book was in good condition and the delivery was efficient and relatively quick considering the Christmas period.It was an excellent book considering the price.Very worthwhile purchase!!!

IF EVOLUTION IS TRUE, WHY ARE THERE STILL APES AND MONKEYS???
If evolution is true, why are there still apes and monkeys???

Well?

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Kusasi- Dominant Male of the Orangutans
This is a great book about the orangutans of Borneo that are being studied by Birute M.F. Galdikas. It talks about Princess, Uranus, Yaiyat, and the powerful Kusasi. Great for people who love Orangutans and want to help save their enviroment.

Orangutan Odyssey
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. ... Read more

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Jeremy Keeling first met Amy, an abandoned orang-utan, when he was looking after the private menagerie of music impresario Gordon Mills. Amy had been born to an orang-utan with no maternal instincts and Jeremy, feeling a connection with the rejected primate, hand-reared her. A friendship was forged that would become the defining relationship of both their lives.One day in 1984, when Jeremy was driving along with one-year-old Amy sitting beside him in the passenger seat, he fell asleep at the wheel and caused a horrific car crash. The first policeman on the scene crawled into the wreckage where he was staggered to see a hairy, non-human hand cradling Jeremy’s head amid the glass and twisted metal: having been saved by Jeremy, Amy now refused to let him go.For Jeremy, it was to be a long convalescence, but he and Amy joined forces with Jim Cronin, a tough-talking primate-lover from the Bronx, who shared his vision of creating a sanctuary for abused and abandoned monkeys.Pooling their knowledge, passion and meagre resources, the two men took on a derelict pig farm in Dorset and, over the next twenty years, slowly transformed it into a 65-acre, cage-less sanctuary for beleaguered primates, rescued from poachers, photographers and scientists on daring raids. Monkey World is now internationally famous and attracts some 800,000 visitors a year.This is a high-wire adventure story of grit and determination, and of love, hope and 88 Capuchin monkeys in the back of a Hercules transport plane, but most of all, at its heart, it is an inspiring tale of the life-changing bond between one man and his ape. ... Read more

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Imagine you are an orang-utan living in a green steamy forest. Imagine you are swinging like a dancer through the branches. Imagine you are sleeping high in a leaf bed. Let yourself be transported into the colourful world of an orang-utan. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Malay Archipelago; Natural history; Ethnology; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; Nature / General; Travel / Asia / Southeast; Travel / Australia ... Read more

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Join orangutans in the high life-about 70 feet high, that is. These "people of the forest" invite kids to a Tarzan-like world of swinging vines and tropical heat, where all the rules for living on the ground are broken.

Zoobooks, the 59-book animal series - the "everything you wanted to know but didn't know who to ask" guide to the world's most fascinating creatures. Each exciting edition of Zoobooks is packed with current scientific facts, striking photography, beautiful illustrations and unique activities that teach children about animals and the habitats in which they live. With innovative publications and products, Wildlife Education, Ltd. has enriched the lives of children, parents, and educators nationwide for 20 years. All titles are offered in library-bound hardcover and soft-cover styles.Zoobooks, ideal for the knowledge-hungry 4-11 year old! ... Read more

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An intimate look at the most humanlike primates on the face of the Earth

In this eye-opening book, two experts on animal communication paint a compassionate picture of the species of great apes that behaves most like us. Blending the work of other scientists with their own extensive research in orangutan behavior, Kaplan and Rogers give rare insight into the lives, and the plight, of these peaceful, intelligent creatures. They provide an amazing account of orangutan behaviors, from their remarkable mothering skills to their ways of communication. Interspersed throughout are charming tales of some of the orangutans the authors have met and befriended. The authors also discuss the uncertain fate of these gentle forest dwellers, whose jungle habitat is visibly dwindling day by day. Illustrated throughout, The Orangutans is the first book to focus entirely on these remarkable primates and their relationship to humans in the evolutionary tree.Amazon.com Review
Chimpanzees might be more like us genetically, but a closelook at The Orangutans shows that our Asian cousins seem muchmore human. That look has been thoughtfully provided by Australianprimatologists Gisela Kaplan and Lesley J. Rogers of the University ofNew England in New South Wales. Their book, based on their work inSumatra and Borneo, the last wild habitats of the orangutan, iscaptivating, and it provides new insight into the past, present, andclouded future of orangutans. With sections on evolutionaryspeculation, behavioral observation, and a plea for assistance fortheir continued survival, the book makes a compelling case for ourinterest, based in both scientific and humanitarian concerns. Profuseillustrations show these apes at all ages and splendidly demonstratetheir diversity; unlike most other animals, not all orangutans lookalike to us. The writing is tight and at times urgent, with the burdenof near-extinction always close to the surface of the authors' concernfor the apes. Vivid expression of such emotions as depression andcuriosity, coupled with a sometimes disturbing facial resemblance tous, makes orangutans difficult to ignore. Unfortunately, the rapiddestruction of their rain-forest home may squeeze them out ofexistence before we can act to save them. Whether the 20,000 or soleft will be enough to breed into the next century is still a mystery;we must hope that The Orangutans will never have to stand infor more direct knowledge. --Rob Lightner ... Read more

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A message for all of us
'The Orang-utans' underscores the urgency for attention to the current circumstances and future realities facing wild orang-utans in Borneo and Malaysia. Kaplan and Rogers present scientific evidence demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities and behavior of this species, as well as narratives on personal encounters with rehabilitated orang-utans.Incredibly complex scientific evidence and principles are presented in a way that allows for the majority of readers to understand and recognize the significance of these data.The authors must be commended for making these scientific discoveries so comprehensible and, in doing so, allowing us to recognize the unique abilities of this species.Although, primatologists that specialize in research on orang-utans are aware of their cognitive and social abilities, this information is not easily accessible to most people. Moreover, when scientific data are attainable they are often communicated in a way that precludes understanding by a nonspecific audience.Kaplan and Rogers make even molecular genetics understandable.Perhaps more importantly, Kaplan and Rogers provide insight into individual orang-utans and thereby highlight the sentience of these beings.We are forced to recognize many similarities between humans and orang-utans, as well as to respect and marvel at the differences between these species.While reading this book you become cognizant of the enormous loss the extinction of the orang-utan would represent.Yet, we are reminded of the impinging reality of orang-utan extinction.Kaplan and Rogers provide objective descriptions of the impacts of human contact, selective logging, and reforestation on the survival of free-ranging orang-utans.It is through the eyes, and writings, of researchers such as these that we will be forced to recognize the importance and uniqueness of other species, and to consider the implications of our actions and conservation efforts.

Nothing New for Those Familiar wtih Orangutans
This book is written by two experienced field researchers.The information presented in the book is more like a review - no new information is presented.Furthermore, information presented on orangutans in captivity is presented in a very negative way despite the fact that neither author has any experience with the care or captive husbandry of this species.Although this species faces possible extinction in next 20 years or so, no concrete, realistic actions steps are given to solve the "real socio-economic" problems in in the countires where orangutans are found. Overall, a very disappointing book. ... Read more

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This work is a hilarious spoof on literary/academic conferences, and a brilliant 'Borgesian' mystery. Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Lu-s Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kabbala, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan', which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos. Author Bio: Luis Fernando Verissimo is one of Brazil's most popular writers thanks to his satirical columns in the national weekly Veja. He is also a celebrated novelist and cartoonist, and he plays the saxophone in a jazz band. His novel "The Club of Angels" was published by Harvill. ... Read more

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This collection of poems is intended to be a companion to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Chocolate Bar". It is designed as a read-aloud book that children can read for themselves. There are poems about making a mess, going out, bathtime, and bedtime, as well as monsters, pets, wizards, teeth, and birthdays. ... Read more