![]() ![]() Good Day Chicago on FOX, Chicago IL Reviews:ī ~ “This is a book that views chimpanzees as sentient beings and how through understanding them and their interaction, we can get insights about ourselves. Quirks and Quarks, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Rude Awakening, WOCM-FM (9/30), Ocean City MDĬhat With Women, KKNW/KIXI-AM, Bellevue WA – Marilyn Kroplick, M.D., president of In Defense of Animals Interviews:Īuthor Author, All Classical 89.9FM, Portland OR It removes the veils of denial, it opens our eyes to the reality that all animals have emotions and experience joy as well as suffering, and it pleads for an end to animal abuse.” The lesson offered by this book has importance for all earth’s animals. “Sheri Speede’s powerful story shows the reader the broad range of personalities seen in chimpanzees, who are remarkably similar to humans, with complex emotional needs, in rich social fabric and self-awareness. Shirley McGreal, founder of the International Primate Protection League Read this book, meet the fascinating chimpanzees, and you’ll wish that this remarkable woman could be cloned!” Without facilities like hers, animals would suffer lives of abuse or move on into the sordid international trade. Sheri Speede has enabled law enforcement to fight wildlife trafficking by establishing an excellent forest sanctuary where rescued chimpanzees get care and love. – Douglas Cress, program coordinator of Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), United Nations ![]() Sheri battled ignorance and apathy and evil, yet ultimately emerged triumphant, perhaps for one simple reason: humanity is not restricted to human beings.” “Sheri Speede chose to make a difference in the lives of Jacky, Nama, Dorothy and dozens of other apes, and her ability to restore their shattered worlds says as much about Sheri’s commitment as the chimpanzees’ inner strength. This fascinating book will forever change how you see chimpanzees – and how you feel about the importance of safeguarding their places on our planet.” “Kindred Beings is both an engrossing African adventure and an inspiring story of how an animal activist has devoted her life to chimpanzees. ![]() Major events in her personal life unfold in her story of Africa and run parallel to the development of Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. But while this is a story about chimpanzees, it is also Dr. Speede candidly reveals her own struggles as a stranger within a country and culture that were so different from what she had known.īooks like Kindred Beings, which bring attention to the complex emotional lives of chimpanzees, can increase concern for their struggle to survive. Dorothy was consistently kind, gentle and forgiving. She demonstrates that chimpanzees, like humans, are capable of a broad spectrum of emotions. Speede describes her relationships with Dorothy and other chimpanzees she comes to know and love, and their relationships with one another. Now she gives us KINDRED BEINGS: What Seventy-Three Chimpanzees Taught Me About Life, Love and Connection, a touching and scientifically compelling memoir that follows the chimpanzee’s life from the time Sheri met her while Dorothy was tethered on a chain at Luna Park Hotel in 1999 until her death nine and a half years later at Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. Sheri Speede is the founder/director of In Defense of Animals-Africa and Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. The image was subsequently covered in hundreds of media outlets on television, in newspapers, and on blogs, deeply touching people around the world while showing once and for all that animals do indeed have feelings.ĭr. Sheri Speede was cradling Dorothy’s head while her family of chimpanzees looked on, went viral after being published in National Geographic. A photo of Dorothy’s funeral, in which Dr. In September 2008 Dorothy, a female chimpanzee in her late forties, died of congestive heart failure at Cameroon’s Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. ![]()
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