Tuma, Refe
Summary: "Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUMSummary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JANGreenland, Caroline.
Summary: A colorful and informative book about the habits, habitat, characteristics, and diet of chimpanzees and lizards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 591Cusick, Dawn
Summary: "When the United States was scrambling to catch up to the Soviets after their successful launch of Sputnik, they didn’t turn to Mercury Seven astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn. Rather, they began bringing chimpanzees to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for a top-secret program. The goal? To do everything America needed to make space travel safe for humans and beat the Soviets. Based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 CUSFarbman, Melinda.
Summary: Describes the life of the chimpanzee that was sent into space as part of the American space program, describing his capture, training, the actual flight, and his life afterwards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2000
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Summary: Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee that was raised like a human child and taught American sign language, has problems when Project Nim funding is ended, but no matter where Nim goes his ability to converse is his salvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.9885 HESWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.885 WAASummary: "Folkmanis BABY CHIMPANZEE is a hug-able puppet that can be any child's best friend. With a movable mouth and sweet expression, he is fun for playtime, naptime or taking him on the road as a travel buddy." --
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Folkmanis 2010
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Greenidge, Kaitlyn
Summary: The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign language; they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fiction Greenridge 2017Hoban, Lillian.
Summary: Bored with spring vacation, Arthur decides to go alone on an overnight field trip in the woods behind his house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOBLang, Suzanne
Summary: "On the spookiest night of the year, Jim Panzee and his jungle friends brave the dark to collect treats. Not only does the jungle look different at night, it sounds different. What's that knock-knock-knock and that HAHA HAHA HAHA? And the smell? PEE-YEW! "Don't be scared," they tell Jim. But then two glowing eyes flash overhead, and looking for treats is almost abandoned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE LANLang, Suzanne
Summary: "Jim has been asked to egg-sit, but he wants to have fun with his friends. Is there a way he can do both?--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green LangSorosiak, Carlie
Summary: Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SORSummary: Oscar, a baby chimpanzee, is enjoying his life with his mother in the jungles along the Ivory Coast. Without warning, young Oscar is orphaned during an attack from a rival group of chimpanzees. Afterward, he attempts to survive on his own, and to be accepted by the other chimps. Oscar struggles until he is adopted by the alpha male of his group.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHILang, Suzanne
Summary: When Jim Panzee wakes up feeling silly, Norman playfully suggests Jim has spring fever, sparking excitement and chaos among Jim and their animal friends until Norman clarifies the true meaning of spring fever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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Summary: In this call-and-response board book Jim Panzee decides that all he really needs is a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: "Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an scientific trailblazer. The second book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Jane Goodall focuses on Jane's lifelong mission to understand the chimpanzees and protect the planet. Hatem Aly's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Describes a family of chimpanzees living in Africa, covering what they eat, how they care for their young, how they communicate, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.885 ROBLang, Suzanne
Summary: "Jim Panzee, really likes bananas. And that's all he ever wants to eat. Good luck getting him to try anything else because he is a pretty picky eater." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Stuudio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: A biography of the zoologist focussing on her work with the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GOODALL PETWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Mama's Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. So begins Frans de Waal's whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.885 WAASummary: The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. But as Nim's natural instincts take over and the humans trusted with his well-being fail to protect him, Project Nim uncovers the unflinching and extraordinary journey of one animal thrust into human society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROContents: Satin Bowerbird -- American Alligator -- Jaguar -- Superb Lyrebird -- Three-humped Treehopper -- Yellow Buffalo Threehopper -- Capercaillie -- Franquet's Epauletted Bat -- Bowhead Whale -- Humpback Whale -- Knudsen's Frog -- Tungara Frog -- Smoky Jungle Frog -- Club-winged Manakin -- Black-and-gold Cotinga -- Red-ruffed Fruitcrow -- Capuchinbird -- Screaming Piha -- Bearded Manakin -- Greater...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology/Library of Natural Sounds 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INFORMATION MACLang, Suzanne
Summary: "Jim Panzee is out for his usual Wednesday walk when he accidentally squishes his stress orange into orange juice. He and his friends must cross the jungle before all of the fresh oranges are gone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021