Title: Chimpanzés du Mont de la Lune
Author: Sabrina and Jean-Michel Krief
Publisher: Belin
Year: 2014
Pages: 263
Dimensions: 25 x 28 x 2.2 cm
Language: French
Condition: like new
Publisher summary:
Imagine yourself lying at the heart of a tropical forest. Less than ten metres away, wild chimpanzees. Their gaze meets yours. You hear their laughter, their wild games. You see them eating figs and wild ginger, using tools, taking care of their young. This is what Sabrina and Jean-Michel Krief have been experiencing for more than fifteen years. Their adventures are what this fine book invites you to share. You will discover with what patience Sabrina, a veterinarian and primatologist at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, studies wild chimpanzees day by day. The reward is a wealth of discoveries about their way of life, their diseases and, above all, the way they take care of themselves. You won’t be able to remain indifferent to Jean-Michel’s exceptional shots, the photographer capturing chimpanzees on the spot in their natural environment. Scenes particularly difficult to immortalise … and which could soon belong to the past. Because the survival of chimpanzees, like that of all the other great apes, is threatened in the short term by human activities. A perspective Sabrina and Jean-Michel cannot accept: they work so that humans and great apes can coexist peacefully and sustainably.