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Foreword by Jane GoodallA former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save mans closest relative. Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble censuses show them to be extinct in four African countries and nearly so in ten others. A large percentage of the remaining populations live in unprotected, increasingly fragmented forests. When Nancy Merrick learned these startling facts in 2009, she decided it was past time to discover the extent to which chimpanzees are at risk across Africa and what can be done. Merrick had begun working with primates in 1972 as a young field assistant in Jane Goodalls famous Gombe camp. Like the rest of the world at the time, she was swept up in the excitement of discovering the remarkable world of chimpanzeestheir ability to fashion tools, their dazzling intelligence, and their complex relationships and societies.
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Dr. Nancy J Merrick is a former student of Jane Goodall who has studied chimpanzees in Tanzania and at Stanford University. An advocate for chimps, she founded ChimpSaver.org, an interactive website that connects users to ways to help chimps. Her writing shares fascinating stories of man's closest relatives and of intriguing figures like the remarkable Dr. Goodall. With chimps now extinct in 4 countries of Africa and nearly so in 10 others, she tells us that saving forests is more important than ever. Dr. Merrick lives in Ventura, California and grew up in Pasadena.
