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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