Bibliograph

Following Fifi, My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Closest Relatives, John Crocker, Jane Goodall

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Following Fifi, My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Closest Relatives, John Crocker, Jane Goodall

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Following Fifi

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

John Crocker, Jane Goodall

Sub title

My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Closest Relatives

Summary

As a young student, John Crocker embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, spending eight months in the Gombe forest working with Jane Goodall. He followed families of wild chimpanzees from sunrise to sunset and learned the fundamental behavioral traits of these chimps as they raised their offspring. One chimpanzee captivated him. Her name was Fifi, and she displayed extraordinary patience and reassurance toward her infant, Freud. Upon returning home and becoming a doctor, Crocker found himself incorporating the lessons he learned from Fifi into his work as a father and physician. Crocker shares how his time spent with our closest animal cousins has helped him better understand his patients with ADD, anxiety, and depression, and how primate traits hardwired into our own natural behavior help chimpanzees protect their community, raise their young, and survive. Finally, chronicling his return to Gombe thirty-six years later with his own son, he reflects on how his experience with the chimps has come full circle

Target audience

adult

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