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Cargando... The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animalspor Charles Siebert
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While researching a recent New York Times Magazine cover story about chimpanzees, Charles Siebert visited a retirement home for former ape movie stars and circus entertainers in Wauchula, Florida known as the Center for Great Apes. There Siebert encountered Roger, a twenty-eight-year-old former Ringling Brothers star who seemed convinced he knew the author from some other time and place. Haunted by Roger¿s response, Siebert takes up residence at the Center for Great Apes and, in the course of one late-night visit to a sleepless Roger¿s quarters, gets to the bottom of this mysterious connection between himself and his simian counterpart. The result is The Wauchula Woods Accord, a strikingly written, wide-ranging physical and metaphysical foray into the increasingly fraught frontier between humans and other animals; a journey that encompasses many of the author¿s encounters with chimpanzees and other animals, as well as the latest scientific discoveries that underscore our intimate biological bonds not only with our nearest kin, but with far more remote-seeming life-forms. By journey¿s end, the reader arrives at a deeper understanding both of Roger and of our numerous other animal selves, a recognition--an accord-- that carries a new sense of responsibility for how we view and treat all animals, including ourselves. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The bulk of Siebert's narrative is an exploration of inter species existential crisis.
This central story of the book is intersticed with anecdotes and data that depict animals as surprisingly sentient and intelligent which challenges the notion of human supremacy and our disconnection from the animal kingdom. The interaction between the main characters provides an engaging dramatic tension that underscores this message.
The principal characters Roger, a chimpanzee in a retirement home and Charles, the author are engaged in a psychological dance that carries the reader through to a reconsideration of our "place" in relation to other living things.
A good read, with an astounding, thought-provoking ending. Highly recommend. ( )