Download e-book for iPad: Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris by Chris Herzfeld,Oliver Y. Martin,Robert D. Martin

By Chris Herzfeld,Oliver Y. Martin,Robert D. Martin

ISBN-10: 022616859X

ISBN-13: 9780226168593

She likes tea, sews, attracts on papers and is a self-taught grasp of tying and untying knots. yet she isn't really a artful lady of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives within the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it truly is in Paris the place Chris Herzfeld first encounters and turns into inspired by means of Wattana and her unprecedented skills with knots. In Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris Herzfeld tells not just Wattana’s attention-grabbing tale, but additionally the tale of orangutans and different primates—including bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas—in captivity.

Offering a uniquely intimate examine the day-by-day lives of captive nice apes, Herzfeld makes use of Wattana’s lifestyles to track the heritage of orangutans from their first arrival in Europe in 1776 to the population of the Zoo of Paris and different zoos at the present time. She offers an in depth examine the conduct, technical information, and talents of Wattana, who, remarkably, makes use of strings, paper rolls, rope, or even items of wooden to make things. and she or he thoughtfully explores how apes individually—and frequently with ingenuity—come to phrases with and adapt to their captive environments and caretakers. via those tales, Wattana sympathetically finds the extreme psychology and special personalities of serious apes in addition to the interconnections among animal and human lives, specifically in zoos.

Scientists are expecting that orangutans will disappear from the wild by way of 2030, and captive animals like Wattana may possibly, hence, supply our greatest probability to appreciate and relish their magnificent intelligence and skills. Wattana, the entire maker of knots, is the hero of this poignant booklet, on the way to enthrall someone focused on the lives of our primate cousins.

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