Online Resources

For further learning about chimpanzees and other related topics, we recommend these resources:

• The Jane Goodall Institute
• Google Maps – Walk in Jane Goodall’s Footsteps
• Virtual Exhibit: National Geographic’s Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall
• Primate Education Network
• Lincoln Park Zoo’s ChimpCARE
• “Chimps Should Be Chimps” interactive storybook
• NAPSA – North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance
• PASA – Pan African Sanctuary Alliance

Reading List

This is a small selection on the many available works on chimpanzees. Many of these authors have multiple books to their credit. Please consult your favorite book stores and sites for additional recommendations, reviews, and newly published works.

Family-Friendly

The Watcher:  Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps
Jeanette Winter

My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall

The Chimpanzee Family Book
Jane Goodall

How to Speak Chimpanzee
Richard Brassey

Fiction

Hurt Go Happy
Ginny Rorby

Non-fiction

In the Shadow of a Man
Jane Goodall

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes
Frans DeWaal

Chimps of Fauna
Andrew Westoll

The Chimpanzee Chronicles: Stories of Heartbreak and Hope from Behind the Bars
Debra Rosenman

Non-fiction Science-based Works

The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior
Jane Goodall

The Care and Management of Captive Chimpanzees
Edited by Linda Brent

The Mind of the Chimpanzee:  Ecological and Experimental Perspectives
Edited by Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Stephen R. Ross