Roger Fouts
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| Original Title: | Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Who We Are |
| ISBN: | 0380728222 (ISBN13: 9780380728220) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given him a profound appreciation of what they can teach us about ourselves. It has also made Fouts an outspoken opponent of biomedical experimentation on chimpanzees. A voyage of scientific discovery and interspecies communication, this is a stirring tale of friendship, courage, and compassion that will change forever the way we view our biological--and spritual--next of kin. Fouts is a professor of Psychology.Declare Epithetical Books Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
| Title | : | Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees |
| Author | : | Roger Fouts |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1998 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Science. Animals. Anthropology. Psychology. Biology. Autobiography. Memoir |
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This book is amazing. If you have a heart, you will cry often. But if you know what I want to do with my life, you will understand exactly why after reading this book.One of the chimps in the book, Booee, is a chimp that I took care of in California (which is why I read the book in the first place). And yes, he will do anything for a rasin!Hmmmm.....just some of the good things I can think of about this book:1. I learned how close we are psychologically, emotionally, verbally, and mentally to chimps2. I learned to view animals in a much more connected way. I mean that I feel closer to all animals.3. I saw again how susceptible humans are to holocaust/slavery type thinking.4. This booked messed with my head. I will never be the same. I will forever after think of chimps as thinking/feeling/talking hominids. And I will be more
A great read. An emotional rollercoaster throughout - Roger Fouts had me feeling anger, despair, empathy and relief in the most passionate of ways. As a primatology student I found the whole book interesting and loved the chimpanzee characters and sign language studies but my favourite part was the last chapter - the way the author describes the history of anthropocentrism, starting with white male supremacy is very thought provoking and sums up the necessity for this book and others like it
This book gets 5 stars because of all that it taught me about chimpanzees and scientific study. I never realized just how intelligent chimpanzees really are. I always thought that chimps using ASL were only using 1 or 2 word combinations, and only with nouns. It is amazing the complex sentences, thoughts, and emotions that these "animals" are sharing. I'll never look at a chimp the same again.There is an ethical dilemma with using primates for scientific study, or for using any animals for that
Is the use of language unique to humankind? How and when did our hominid ancestors acquire language? Do chimpanzees - who are genetically closer to humans than they are to other apes - have language abilities? Is sign language useful where other communication channels fail, for example in children with autism? Next of Kin addresses these and other questions through the story of a young female chimpanzee who was taught American Sign Language in the 1960s. Roger Fouts was assigned to Project
Fresh from visiting the Chimpanzee Language Institute (which I stumbled on) I felt compelled to read more about the chimps I had just met and -- yes -- signed to. I am a lazy non-fiction reader but this was an account that had me spell bound. It has deepened my understanding, made me laugh, and made me cry.
Truly excellent. A look at how far weve come in the care and understanding of captive chimpanzees but also an indictment of the current treatment of our nearest cousins. Surprisingly (ha), I have nothing to complain about with this book. Parts of it are upsetting and extremely sad, but its handled well and is education, not wallowing. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in human/non-human relations, wildlife protection, or in biomedical research. I listened to the audiobook read by the
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