Crowley County Combined Library

When her human guardian goes on a business trip, Ricki, an orphaned chimpanzee infant, adopts Henri, a shaggy dog, as her "mother."

Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle of the chimpanzee.

"Chaz the chimp enters a surfing contest, but things keep going wrong! Who wins? A reading comprehension quiz at the end of the story lets early readers take on a challenge of their own"--

When an old friend of her father's drops off an unusually intelligent chimpanzee at their apartment in the middle of the night with strict orders to keep the chimp a secret, twelve-year-old Rachel wants to know what the big mystery is all about.

"Oscar is a baby chimpanzee who lives in the African rain forest. One day, his mother disappears. He is all alone--until and older chimp named Freddy notices him. Join Oscar and Freddy as they become friends and Freddy teaches Oscar how to survive." -- Back cover.

Describes how chimpanzees are born and cared for and how they learn to find food and communicate with other members of their group.

When Dr. Jim Dutton is forced to accept the fact that the bonobo ape he and his family have been raising and have come to love is, in fact, an augmented ape, engineered by the corporation he works for, his investigation takes him to a SAC facility in Africa with "a covert genetics lab, a missing band of blue-eyed apes, crude buildings decorated with skulls, and, deep in the shadows, human corpses savagely hacked to pieces."--Jacket.

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.