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Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist. Reprint Houghton Mifflin, 2000. An account of one woman's research and conservation efforts with gorillas.

Fouts, Roger. Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees. Avon Books, 1998. Research on chimp-human communication.

Goodall, Jane. Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Houghton Mifflin, Reprint Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 2000. Pioneering research with chimpanzees.

Leach, Michael. The Great Apes: Our Face in Nature's Mirror. Blandford, 1996. Introductory book providing an overview of the great apes.

Waal, Frans de. Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes. Rev. ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. De Waal's work helped establish the now accepted view that apes experience desires, intentions, and other emotions.

Weber, Bill, and Amy Vedder. In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land. Simon & Schuster, 2001. An account of ten years in Rwanda studying endangered mountain gorillas.

For younger readers

Ashby, Ruth. The Orangutan. Dillon, 1994. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Goodall, Jane. The Chimpanzee Family Book. North-South, 1997. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Goodall, Jane. My Life with the Chimpanzees. Pocket, 1996. For readers in grades 3 to 6.

Maynard, Thane. Primates: Apes, Monkeys, Prosimians. Franklin Watts, 1995. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Redmond, Ian. Gorilla. Knopf, 1995. For readers in grades 5 to 9.

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Sleeper, Barbara, and Art Wolfe (photographer). Primates: The Amazing World of Lemurs, Monkeys and Apes. Chronicle, 1997. A visual journey.

Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist. Houghton, 1983, 1988. Study based on the author's observations over 15 years in the wild.

Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. Rev. ed. Houghton, 1988. A classic illustrated work on primate research.

Preston-Mafham, Rod, and Ken Preston-Mafham. Primates of the World. Blandford, 1999. Well-illustrated coverage of 60 species. For high school readers.

Rowe, Noel, and Russell A. Mittermeier. The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates. Pogonias, 1996. Beautifully illustrated guide to living monkeys and apes of the world.

Sapolsky, Robert M. Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons. Simon & Schuster, 2001. A witty and poignant memoir of a scientist's study of savanna baboons.

Strum, Shirley C. Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons. Random, 1987, 2001. Fourteen years' experience with baboons in Kenya provide comments on the nature of scientific investigation.

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