THE INTIMATE APE: ORANGUTANS AND THE SECRET LIFE OF A VANISHING SPECIES

Book ID/图书代码： 14780009B31608

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 首部全程探索长毛红猩猩现状的纪实读物！
比 Discovery 更精彩，2010年三月隆重登场！

“Kusasi 是只重约三百磅的雄猩猩，如果它想，它完全可以撕碎你的胳膊和腿，就像扯菊花瓣易如反掌。研究人员教了Princess 手语，它还有组合一定词汇的能力……”
几个世纪以来，长毛红猩猩一直栖息在东南亚地区与世隔绝的热带丛林中，那里的宁和使这个上帝创造的古老物种鲜为人知。悲哀的是，那段美好的时光一去不复返，作为地球上最聪明的物种之一，红毛猩猩已濒临灭绝。
“我沿着泥泞、棕色的Sekonyer河进入位于婆罗洲某岛加里曼丹的南部丛林，一睹红毛猩猩最真实的生活面貌，探寻它们最应告知世人的珍贵价值……”
作者SHAWN THOMPSON，是名记者。本书记录了他与世界各地的灵长类行为学家、生态环境保护人士、自愿者踏上旅程共同揭示这些灵长类的美妙壮丽，及它们错综复杂的生活习性。
行进于苏门答腊岛潮热的雨林、穿梭在婆罗洲的丛林河谷，沿途，THOMPSON参观了自然保护区，并体验了相关的自然保护规划。这些经历外加THOMPSON极具感染力的热情，令他对长毛红猩猩生活中的情感交流与才智表现所做的描述更真实、更精彩！
同时，THOMPSON还结识了那些倾其一生去了解、保护、最终为拯救这一强壮但与人类密切相关的濒危物种的好心人，正因为有了他们的帮助，长毛红猩猩才得以在最后一片乐土繁衍生息！(ZY)

Awards/获奖情况：“An excellent book . . . Thompson provides us with a vivid picture of people who have established an intellectual and emotional rapport with orangs in their natural environment, as well as an unforgettable portrait of the orangutans themselves. In the book, we learn of the full range of these animals’ thought and feelings, and gain a sense of empathy both for the animals and for the humans whose life is spent in close and intensely personal rapport with them. For those of us who have been enthralled by Jane Goodall’s spell-binding account of chimpanzees and their individuality, this rich and readable book is an absolute necessity.”---Bernard E. Rollin, author of Animal Rights and Human Morality; University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biomedical Sciences, and Animal Sciences at Colorado State University; pioneer in animal ethics. (“一本完美的书！Thompson 不但带给我们一段难以忘怀、对长毛红猩猩生动的描写，而且栩栩如生地刻画了一幅讲述在自然环境下，人类与这些动物在情感和才智等方面融洽相处的画面。书中，我们能对长毛红猩猩的所思、所想、所觉有全方面的了解，一种对濒危物种、对奉献一生、与其坎坷命运紧密相连的好心人的珍视、同情油然而生。Jane Goodall 是位出彩描述黑猩猩和其特征的作者，那些着迷Jane的迷猩处物在情感和才智等方面融洽相处的，没的是，那段美好的时光终作品的读者，定要看看这本内容丰富、清晰易懂的作品！”---Bernard E. Rollin，著有《兽权与人道》(Animal Rights and Human Morality) 美国科罗拉多州大学哲学、生物医学、动物学领域的杰出教授，是倡导动物伦理的先锋！)

“The Intimate Ape paints a humanistic portrait of several orangutans and follows a series of heartfelt stories about peoples’ interaction with the great red ape. Through Thompson’s narrative, we get a glimpse of the orangutan’s plight and how our ever-increasing demand for consumer goods is pushing this intelligent animal toward extinction. The book makes a compelling and easy-to-digest case for why we should save the orangutans and how we can do that by protecting their natural habitat - the rainforest.”---The Rainforest Alliance, www.rainforest-alliance.org
Shawn Thompson’s research for his new book, “The Intimate Ape: Orangutans and the Secret Life of a Vanishing Species,” brought former Chaffee Zoological Gardens resident Azak to his attention.
Thompson dedicates a chapter in the book to how Azak, an orangutan born at the Fresno Zoo in 1969 and who died there in 2003, learned to associate brightly colored plastic letters with words.
Thompson was teaching a course in environmental journalism in British Columbia when he noticed there were 10 times more books on chimps and four times more on gorillas than on orangutans. And the books he found dealing with orangutans were written by scientists who wrote in such technical terms that there was little appeal to mainstream readers.
The ex-newspaper writer spent 10 years in Borneo and Sumatra jungles to get an up-close look at orangutans and to talk to the scientists who study them. Thompson’s book has been endorsed by the Rainforest Alliance, the Australian Orangutan Project and the Orangutan Land Trust.- Rick Bentley

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