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Zookeeper Dick Haskin poses for a photo with Chewy, a sumatran orangutan, and two young visitors at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
Book Excerpts

A Reluctant Zookeeper's Obsession With Great Apes

An excerpt from Carson Vaughan's Zoo Nebraska.

Jane Goodall communicates with Nana the chimpanzee on June 6th, 2004, at Magdeburg Zoo in Magdeburg, Germany.
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Big Sur becomes drivable, the EPA loosens coal ash rules, and Jane Goodall wants a hunting license she won't use.

Ponso, the only surviving chimpanzee of a colony of 20 apes, is pictured on Chimpanzee Island near the town of Grand Lahou, Ivory Coast, on August 18th, 2017.
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This Absolute Lust for Meat

What chimpanzees on the hunt can tell us about human behavior.

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All Chimpanzees Are Now Classified as Endangered—40 Years Too Late

The U.S. government classifies all chimpanzees as endangered, after decades of stalling.

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A Conversation With Jane Goodall

As Jane Goodall turns 80, Henry Nicholls talks to her about her remarkable career studying chimpanzee behavior, her animal welfare activism, and accusations of plagiarism in her latest book.