The Book of Being Chimp

Adrian Cale

The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale's entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring 100 of the author's beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee life. The captivating pictures are accompanied by a simple, humorous, and engaging text which tells you all about the contrasting lives of chimps in the wild and those being rehabilitated at rescue centres.

The book is split into two main parts, presented across 40 beautifully designed spreads. Each spread title starts with the word 'being' as part of a sequential guide to the various stages, characteristics, behaviour, quirks and challenges of chimp life.

Part 1 - Being a Chimp details their life in the wild - from birth, through growth and development stages, to what makes them tick, what they eat, how they communicate and more.

Part 2 - Being helped to be a Chimp - covers the vastly different life of rehabilitating chimps at rescue centres and what they go through learning to be chimps all over again.

This charming book is a warm, witty and informative look at the wonderful but challenging world of simply being a chimpanzee.

"Emotive, informative, inspirational and enchanting, with stunning photographs and clear writing throughout... If chimps themselves could read, this might well be their own how-to-grow-up guide."

 - Dr Jane Goodall, DBE - Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

"A beautiful book with stunning photographs, this is a wonderfully humorous, informative and personal story all about chimps. Quite simply, a great read for all the family."

 - Iolo Williams - BBC Wildlife TV Presenter

"This beautiful book shares new insights into the lives of our closest cousins. Written in a funny and engaging way, you are left feeling empowered to conserve them and their wild environment."

 - Megan McCubbin - BBC Wildlife TV Presenter & Zoologist

96 pages.

Hardback £19.99 £17.99