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Roger's World: Toward a New Understanding of Animals

Roger's World: Toward a New Understanding of Animals


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Charles Siebert encounters a chimpanzee in a Florida retirement home for former ape entertainers. Of the 46 retirees at this facility, 28-year-old Roger is the only one who still lives alone. Born in captivity, and raised all his life around human beings, he still prefers human company to that of his fellow chimps. Roger's World unfolds over the course of Siebert's last night with Roger. They sit together, a chimpanzee and a man, two beings separated by no more than some metal bars and a few strands of DNA; each of them trying, in a sense, to get past himself in order to get at the other's essence. Within this account, Siebert tells a larger story: the tales of his travels in Africa - where he encountered, among other things, elephants suffering from a collective nervous breakdown, and some of the last remaining chimps in the wild - and his travels in the US through the dark heart of captive chimpdom. Siebert met chimpanzees everywhere in the course of his civil safari: chimps in research labs and roadside zoos; chimps injected with everything from HIV to hepatitis for drug tests; and chimps that have been strapped to everything from high-speed centrifuges and crash sleds for space flight and seat-belt tests. In the end, Siebert's vigil with Roger leads to a number of moving revelations - not only about Roger and himself, but about the fraught moment that we humans have arrived at in our relationship with our fellow creatures. Roger's World suggests a new and positive way for human beings to see our fellow creatures, and to see ourselves in relation to them.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781921372865
  • Publisher: Scribe Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Scribe Publications
  • Sub Title: Toward a New Understanding of Animals
  • ISBN-10: 1921372869
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Paperback


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