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"The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is a true story of endurance and resilience, compassion, dedication and love. I knew the prison-like conditions of the medical research facility from which Gloria [Grow] rescued these chimpanzees; when I visited them at their new sanctuary I was moved to tears. Finally they had reached a secure haven where, gradually, they could recover from their years of torment. Andrew Westoll is a born story teller: The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, written with empathy and skill, tenderness and humour, involves us in a world few understand. And leaves us marvelling at the ways in which chimpanzees are so like us, and why they deserve our help and are entitled to our respect." --Jane Goodall
"The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is an unflinching, visceral look at the emotional and physical damage-actual, real damage done to specific, individual apes-in some of America's most notorious biomedical research labs. It is also the story of humans who were driven to provide them with refuge, retirement, and things that should be basic but aren't (things as basic as choice about food and friends), and, ultimately, their inherent right to dignity." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants and Ape House
"This book will make you think deeply about our relationship with great apes. It amazed me to discover the behaviors and feelings of the chimpanzees." --Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation
"This book is a wonder. Passionate, intelligent, moving and, above all, tremendously important, it illustrates the triumph of the wild spirit and offers surprising hope that the human animal might yet be redeemed. Think of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals and you'll have some idea of what it is you hold in your hands. It has been a long time since any author has inspired me to such extremes of compassion and humility." --Barbara Gowdy
"The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is an unflinching, visceral look at the emotional and physical damage-actual, real damage done to specific, individual apes-in some of America's most notorious biomedical research labs. It is also the story of humans who were driven to provide them with refuge, retirement, and things that should be basic but aren't (things as basic as choice about food and friends), and, ultimately, their inherent right to dignity." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants and Ape House
"This book will make you think deeply about our relationship with great apes. It amazed me to discover the behaviors and feelings of the chimpanzees." --Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation
"This book is a wonder. Passionate, intelligent, moving and, above all, tremendously important, it illustrates the triumph of the wild spirit and offers surprising hope that the human animal might yet be redeemed. Think of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals and you'll have some idea of what it is you hold in your hands. It has been a long time since any author has inspired me to such extremes of compassion and humility." --Barbara Gowdy
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In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like presiding over a maximum security prison, a Zen sanctuary and an old folks' home all rolled into one. But she is first and foremost creating a refuge for her troubled charges -- a place where they can recover and begin to trust humans again.
Hoping to win some of this trust, journalist Andrew Westoll spent months at Fauna Sanctuary as a volunteer, and in this book he vividly recounts his time in the chimp house and the histories of its residents. He arrives with dreams of striking up an immediate friendship with the legendary Tom, the wise face of The Great Ape Protection Act, but Tom seems all too content to ignore him. Gradually, though, old man Tommie and the rest of the "troop" begin to warm towards Westoll as he learns the routines of life at the farm and realizes just how far the chimps have come.
Brimming with empathy and winning stories of Gloria and her charges, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is an absorbing, big-hearted book that grapples with questions of just what we owe to the animals who are our nearest genetic relations.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Ce commentaire est de: Chimps Of Fauna Sanctuary (Hardcover)
This wonderful book will reach into the heart of the reader and bring about a gamut of emotions. I laughed at the author's interactions with the chimps, cried at their stories and evidence of psychological damage done to them at the hands of humans and marveled at their amazing capacity to trust humans again. This book clearly shows the many similarities between these apes and ourselves. They are so much like us yet have been treated so poorly. Andrew Westoll shows us that despite their treatment these chimps can touch our heart and look into our souls like no other animal on earth. This is definitely a read again and again book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A glorious and painful read,
By Foodcoach (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Chimps Of Fauna Sanctuary (Hardcover)
As difficult as it for me, as it is for any animal lover, to read about the cruelty that humans can impose on our chimpanzee cousins, I am grateful that Westoll wrote this book. It is a glimpse into the heart of the chimps and those who care for and love them. It is painful to imagine the details of the trauma that these and other experimental chimps endure. We need this book, and as many people as possible to read it, to bring to light the inhumanity of what goes on behind closed lab doors.Gloria Grow, the woman who co-founded Fauna, speaks about how people need to have something that they care about and are willing to fight for outside of themselves. She is an inspiration in her passion and fight for the chimps. But the stars of the book are the chimps themselves with their traumatized and gloriously authentic personalities. Westoll mentioned something earlier on in the book about how people, when they come into contact with the chimps, see reflections of themselves at a primal level. I found myself consistently making comparisons between the limitations and capacities of humans and apes and how even in the midst of the scars of mistreatment and the cruelty that we are capable of, there is the possibility for healing and love to flourish. It is redemption at its finest. The only negative that I would mention, and it is minor, is that I struggled to get a clear picture in my mind of the how the sanctuary is laid out - I needed a visual image of how the caretaker humans and chimps were connecting. Some more detailed photos would have helped.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thanks to the author,
By Christine (Montreal) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Chimps Of Fauna Sanctuary (Hardcover)
This book brings to light the plight of chimps used in medical research settings.It was disturbing to read what the chimps were subjected to but the book revolves mainly on their recovery at the sanctuary. I am grateful for having read this book and even more so to the author for raising awareness on the matter. God bless the author and all the volunteers at the Fauna sanctuary.
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