Ape house : a novel /
Sara Gruen.
- 1st ed.
- [Toronto] : Bond Street Books, c2010.
- 306 p. ; 25 cm.
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
9780385664448 9780385664455 (tr. pbk.)
2010008928
Human-animal relationships--Fiction. Bonobo--Fiction. Animal rights activists--Fiction. Reality television programs--Fiction.