Jeff Corwin's Explorer Series: The World of Primates (2014)

Are there any similarities between humans and orangutans, gibbons or lemurs? There must be, since we all belong to the same scientific family known as primates. In order to know ourselves better, we only need to study what can be considered our distant cousins. How they are built, how they behave and survive can give us glimpses into the successful strategies of these compelling animals. This pocket guide is your answer to all these questions. It is also a handy guide to the sometimes amusing, sometimes puzzling, sometimes disturbing facts about primates that are fast disappearing from our planet. As you learn more, you get armed with ideas on how to protect these incredible animals.

This useful and well-designed pocket guide helps to answer all your questions about primates - how do they live, where do they live and what threats are they facing? It is also a handy guide to the sometimes amusing, sometimes puzzling, sometimes disturbing facts about primates that are fast disappearing from our planet. As the reader learns more, they are armed with ideas on how to protect these incredible animals.