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The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals

Charles Siebert

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Description:Roger's World unfolds over the course of Siebert's last night with Roger, a chimpanzee in a Florida retirement home for former ape entertainers: stars of the big screen, TV, and Big Top circuses. Of the 46 retirees at this facility, Roger, a 28-year-old former Ringling Brothers entertainer, is the only one who still lives alone. Born in captivity, and raised all his life around human beings, he still prefers human company to that of his fellow chimps.Charles and Roger sit together, a chimpanzee and a man. Two beings separated by no more than some metal bars and a few strands of DNA; each of them trying, in a sense, to get past himself in order to get at the other's essence.Within this account, Siebert tells a larger story: the tales of his travels in Africa - where he encountered, among other things, elephants suffering from a collective nervous breakdown, and some of the last remaining chimps in the wild - and his travels in the U.S. through the dark heart of captive chimpdom at a moment in history when the number of chimps in the wilderness is rapidly declining, even as those in captivity continues to rise.In the end, Siebert's vigil with Roger leads to a number of moving revelations - not only about Roger and himself, but about the fraught moment that we humans have arrived at in our relationship with the animal world. Roger's World suggests a new way for human beings to see our fellow creatures, and to see ourselves in relation to them.(Roger’s World was also published as The Wauchula Woods Accord.)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals. To get started finding The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Scribner

Release: 2009

ISBN: 1439165106

Description: Roger's World unfolds over the course of Siebert's last night with Roger, a chimpanzee in a Florida retirement home for former ape entertainers: stars of the big screen, TV, and Big Top circuses. Of the 46 retirees at this facility, Roger, a 28-year-old former Ringling Brothers entertainer, is the only one who still lives alone. Born in captivity, and raised all his life around human beings, he still prefers human company to that of his fellow chimps.Charles and Roger sit together, a chimpanzee and a man. Two beings separated by no more than some metal bars and a few strands of DNA; each of them trying, in a sense, to get past himself in order to get at the other's essence.Within this account, Siebert tells a larger story: the tales of his travels in Africa - where he encountered, among other things, elephants suffering from a collective nervous breakdown, and some of the last remaining chimps in the wild - and his travels in the U.S. through the dark heart of captive chimpdom at a moment in history when the number of chimps in the wilderness is rapidly declining, even as those in captivity continues to rise.In the end, Siebert's vigil with Roger leads to a number of moving revelations - not only about Roger and himself, but about the fraught moment that we humans have arrived at in our relationship with the animal world. Roger's World suggests a new way for human beings to see our fellow creatures, and to see ourselves in relation to them.(Roger’s World was also published as The Wauchula Woods Accord.)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals. To get started finding The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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