Reviews for Who on Earth Is Jane Goodall?: Champion for the Chimpanzees

The average rating for Who on Earth Is Jane Goodall?: Champion for the Chimpanzees based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-11 00:00:00 Joseph Zumbo Very interesting & educational! I got this book in a gift shop of the Everglades National Park. The pics are very good & helpful, & it is a nice & easy read. Thank you for clarifying differences in alligators & crocodiles. I feel like that topic comes up a lot, but it has never sank in so well before reading this book. I had always heard V-shaped muzzle (crocodile) versus U-shaped muzzle (alligator), but they used to still look the same to me in pics. The most helpful difference I read in this book was that alligators have a bigger upper jaw so that when their mouths are closed their bottom teeth are not visible, while crocodiles have upper & lower jaws of the same size so that when their mouths are closed there is some overlapping of upper & lower teeth (like folded hands with intertwined fingers). But they are both in the same Order Crocodylia (commonly called "crocodilians"), which includes caimans & gharials (which I had never heard of before reading this book). The biggest irony I learned in this book can be summed up in the statement they said was on a bumper sticker: "Save an alligator, buy a handbag." It was a new concept to me that in order to conserve crocodilians & ensure their continued survival, the conservationists actually encouraged more hunting. Huh? Does (or might) this concept work for other endangered animals? It was apparently a win-win for conservationists, economists, hunters, & the retail shops & industry (that processes & sells skins)! An analogy (from a quote in the book): if you never mow your lawn it gets out of control, but if you trim the grass by regularly scheduled mowing then it's healthy & beneficial for the yard.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-28 00:00:00 Marian Barnes The book gave me good information about dogs and how they help people. The dogs are very important to people who can't get around by them selves