Recommended Books
For adults:
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Gorilla Society by Alexander Harcourt & Kelly Stewart
The Great Ape Project by Paoloa Cavalieri & Peter Singer
In the Kingdom of Gorillas by Bill Weber & Amy Vedder
Jambo: A Gorilla's Story by Richard Johnstone-Scott
Just Like Us by Rick Quinn
The year of the Gorilla by George Schaller
Unforgotten by Anita Silvey
Voices from the Ape House by Beth Armstrong
For young children:
Good morning, Gorillas by Mary Pope Osborne
Gorillas Up Close by Christina Nippert-Eng
He Leads by June Smalls
The One and Only Ivan by Christina Applegate
Young Change Maker series by Stacy C. Bauer
Gorilla conservation organizations
Goualougo Triangle Ape Project
GRACE (Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center)
PASA (Pan African Sanctuary Alliance)
Podcasts
Films
The Gorilla Whisperer (Amazon Prime)
The Last Silverback Mountain Gorillas
The Urban Gorilla by National Geographic
Virunga: Gorillas in Peril (Netflix) *This video has graphic content and is not recommended for young children.
Other websites
Ancestor: Handed Down
Once there was a coming together
Inauspicious, completely natural
A merging of genes to create a new life
The father was an Ape ancestor
The mother too, but more
A mutation made her the mother
Of a new line, unremarkable at first
More than two million years ago, Homo
Until the arrival, the Eve of Modern Humans
The mitochondrial mother of all, traceable
Take an evolutionary leap forward
Here today, looking back
A Gorilla once crossed a river
Unremarkable, completely natural
But we won’t let it come our way
Back in time we too crossed that river
Many in fact, some left mother Africa
Never relaxed, until far we spread
And made this world our own
The Cross River Gorilla may yet fall
Victim of our victory over all
Think, that could have been us
If another species won the race
We owe it to them and all
Not to do the irreversible
(Any more!)
Evolutionary biology made us revolutionary
Because of, among other things
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