While humans are different from monkeys, apes, and lemurs, they are all primates and are similar in many ways. For example, primates make many sounds that humans make, such as sneezes, burps, hiccups, and even laughter! What is a Primate? identifies the members of the primate family tree and describes how they are different from each other. This book describes: - reproduction, communication, and feeding - the complex social structures of primates - chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gibbons - Old and New World monkeys - how people are different - what is being done to rescue threatened primates from destruction by their human cousins

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Grade 3-5-This slim introduction does a so-so job. Double-page spreads incorporate tiny sound bites of information organized in captioned paragraphs and attractive full-color photos accompanied by boxed captions. The two-page chapters provide general information on primates and the different species including gorillas, gibbons, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos. When readers are told "Our [primate] thumbs allow us to pick up and hold objects. Animals without opposable thumbs cannot do this," they may wonder about the manual dexterity of raccoons, and possibly parrots, whose clumsy looking claws can nimbly handle a slippery sunflower seed. Unfamiliar terms are emphasized in dark type, and are then defined in the text or the glossary. Consider instead Thane Maynard's slightly more difficult Primates (Watts, 1997). Informative, attractive, and well written, it includes all the data found in What Is a Primate? and more.
Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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