Where possible each book title is linked to an option to buy the relevant title.
Each author's name is linked to either their own internet site or a review, again where possible.
While books and articles listed here are related to the concerns of The Great Ape Project, the Great Ape Project does not necessarily agree with all views expressed in them.
Book Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Primate Cognition |
Michael Tomasello & Josef Call |
Oxford University Press, 1997 |
Primate Behavior |
ed. I. DeVore |
Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1965 |
Primate Societies |
Barbara B. Smuts et al. |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1987 |
Jambo. A Gorilla's Story |
Richard Johnstone-Scott |
Michael O'Mara Books, London, 1995 |
Walking With the Great Apes |
Sy Davidson |
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1991 |
Intelligence in Animals |
Michael Bight |
The Reader's Digest Association Ltd., 1994
Reprinted with amendments, 1995 |
The Animal Mind |
J.L. Gould & C.G. Gould |
Scientific American Library 1994 |
Animal Minds |
Donald R. Griffin |
University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1992 |
The Mentality of Apes |
Wolfgang Köhler
Translated from the 2nd Ed. (Rev) by Ella Winter |
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1957 |
The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes |
R. Yerkes |
Publisher Unknown, 1916 |
The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience |
Donald R. Griffin |
Rockefeller University Press, New York, 1981 |
'The Chimpanzee's Mind: How Noble in Reason? How Absent in Ethics?', in Evolutionary Ethics |
by Daniel J. Povinelli & Laurie R. Godfrey
Ed. M. H. Nitecki and D. V. Nitecki |
State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, 1993 |
Bonobo : The Forgotten Ape |
Frans de Waal |
University of California Press, 1997 |
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals |
Frans de Waal |
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996 |
Peacemaking Among Primates |
Frans de Waal |
Harvard University Press, London and Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1989 |
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes |
Frans de Waal |
Jonathan Cape, London, 1982 |
How Monkeys See the World |
Dorothy L. Cheney & Robert M. Seyfarth |
University of Chicago Press, 1990 |
Faces in the Forest |
Karen Striers |
Publishing Details Unknown |
The Inevitable Bond: Examining Scientist-Animal Interactions |
ed. Hank Davis and Dianne Balfour |
Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
The Information Continuum: Evolution of Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes and Hominids |
Barbara J. King |
School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2188 |
Reaching Into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes |
Russon, Bard, & Parker |
Cambridge University Press, 1996 |
Through Our Eyes Only? : a search for animal consciousness |
Marion Stamp Dawkins |
Spektrum, 1993 |
The Thinking Ape. Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence |
Richard Byrne |
Oxford University Press, 1995 |
Machiavellian Intelligence: Extensions and Evaluations |
ed. Andrew Whiten & Richard W. Byrne |
Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
The Great Apes - Our Face in Nature's Mirror |
Michael Leach |
Blandford, London, 1996 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
D. Fossey |
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983 |
The Mountain Gorilla |
George B. Schaller |
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963 |
The Last Ape |
Takayoshi Kano |
Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA, 1992 |
Orangutans in Borneo |
Gisela Kaplan & Lesley Rogers |
University of New England Press, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 1994 |
The Evolution of Co-operation |
Robert Axelrod |
Penguin, London, 1990 |
The Roots of Thinking |
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone |
Temple UP 1990 |
When Elephants Weep, The Emotional Lives of Animals |
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |
Dell, 1995 |
The Monkey Wars |
Deborah Blum |
Oxford University Press, 1994 |
Teaching sign language to chimpanzees |
ed. Gardner, R.A., Gardner, B.T. & Van Cantfort, T. |
SUNY Press, NY, 1989 |
The Ape's Reflexion |
Adrian Desmond |
Publisher Unknown, 1979 |
Apes, Men, and Language |
Eugene Linden |
E P Dutton, New York, 1984 |
The Talking Ape |
K. Laidler |
Stein and Day Publishers, New York, 1980 |
Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments |
Eugene Linden |
Publisher Unknown, 1986 |
Chimpanzee Travels : on and off the road in Africa |
Dale Peterson |
Addison-Wesley, 1995 |
Chimpanzee Cultures |
ed. Richard W. Wrangham, W. C. McGrew, Frans B. M. de Waal, & Paul G. Heltne |
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, 1994 |
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence |
Richard Wrangham & Dale Peterson |
Houghton Mifflin, 1996 |
Great Ape Societies |
ed. W.C. McGrew, L.F. Marchant & T. Nishida |
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996 |
Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution |
W. C. McGrew |
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992 |
Apes of the World: Their Social Behavior, Communication , Mentality and Ecology |
Russell H. Tuttle |
Noyes, Park Ridge, NJ, 1986 |
Hominid Culture in Primate Perspective |
ed. Duane Quiatt & Junichiro Itani |
University Press of Colorado, 1994 |
The Ethological Roots of Culture |
ed. R.A. Gardner, B. T. Gardner, B. Chiarelli & F. X. Plooij |
Kluwer Academic Pub.: Dorecht, Boston & London, 1992 |
Understanding Chimpanzees |
ed. Paul Heltne & Linda Marquardt |
Publisher Unknown, 1989 |
The Red Ape: Orang-utans and Human Origins |
Jeffrey Schwartz |
Publisher Unknown, 1987 |
In Search of the Red Ape |
John MacKinnon |
Ballantine Books, NY, 1974 |
Orang-utan |
Barbara Harrison |
Collins, 1962
Oxford University Press, Oxford,1987 |
Ape and the Child |
W.N. & L.A. Kellogg |
Publisher Unknown, 1967 |
Monkey Painting |
Thierry Lenain |
Reaktion Books, London, 1997 |
Regarding Animals |
Arnold Arluke & Clinton Sanders |
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1996 |
Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status |
David De Grazia |
Cambridge University Press, 1996 |
'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives |
ed. Sue Taylor Parker & Kathleen Rita Gibson |
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990 |
The Pygmy Chimpanzee: Evolutionary Biology and Behavior |
ed. Randall L. Susman |
Plenum Press, New York and London, 1984 |
Proceedings of the International Conference on Orangutans: The Neglected Ape |
ed. J. J. Ogden, L.A. Perkins, & L. Sheeran |
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, 1994 |
Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views Since 1600. Proceedings of the Symposium, Leiden, The Netherlands, 28 June 1 July, 1993 |
ed. R. Corbey and B. Theunissen |
Department of Prehistory, Leiden University, Leiden, 1995 |
Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
H. W. Janson |
The Warburg Institute, University of London, London, 1952 |
The Role of the Chimpanzee in Research |
ed. F. Eder, E. Kaiser & F. A. King |
Karger, London, 1994 |
The Classification of Lower Organisms |
H. F. Copeland |
Pacific Books, Palo Alto, California, 1956 |
Primate Social Relationships: An Integrated Approach |
ed. Robert A. Hinde |
Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1983 |
Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Great Divide |
Robert Michael Pyle |
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1995 |