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	Author	Andrew Y. Grant
	ISBN	978-0-9776142-3-3, 10: 0-9776142-3-9
	Publication	October 20, 2007
	Pages	160 pages
	Size	6 X 9
	Price	$16.00
	Features	Paperback, 100 b&w photos

Most enjoyable, amusing, and accurate. 
-- George Schaller, naturalist, author, conservationist

Grant brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to a unique view of gorillas and humans around them...
-- Douglas Myers, CEO, Zoological Society of San Diego.

Fact-filled and as playful and direct as its gorilla subject...
-- Penny Patterson, teacher of Koko the gorilla and President of The Gorilla Foundation

Book website:  www.nearlyhuman.net

HOW GORILLA ARE YOU?

Gorillas and humans are very close relatives -- sharing 98% DNA.  Nearly Human explains just how close, what we can learn from them, and why they need to be saved. Includes hundreds of fascinating gorilla facts, such as:

• King Kong is a vegetarian
• Gorillas use over 30 gestures to communicate
• Gorillas never hit their young
• Nine-Step Chest-Beating Display (which you can learn)

What's special about Nearly Human?

• Authoritative author is a veteran zoo executive
• Author draws on considerable research, interviews with specialists
• Makes scientific findings accessible - and engaging - to the general reader
• Prompts a re-think of man's shortcomings and excesses (diet, family ties, play, communication)
• Some profits to be donated to The Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species
• Author scheduling a national "Save the Gorilla Tour" at at least six-city zoos
  from Oct. 2007-April 2008 to promote book  and conservation efforts in general.
  

Andrew Y. Grant 
Currently CEO of Grant Leisure, Andrew Grant has held executive positions at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park (Deputy Director) and The London Zoo (Managing Director).  He is a graduate of University of Oregon, and was included in Who's Who since 1989. He currently lives in Montecito, CA.

 

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