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Description of  The Chimpanzee Whisperer: A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation

A moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperernow the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot. Stany Nyandwis gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a chimpanzee whisperer. His skills and devotion to these creaturesour closest living relatives, with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNAhave earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa and around the world. But he began life in poverty, born and raised in a dirt-floor, straw-roofed hut in rural Burundi. Read more