Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna

A moving story of survival and an eye-opening introduction to an extraordinary community of chimps and people.

Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools, seeking out tiny bush babies with wooden spears. Unlike most other chimps, these apes fear neither water nor fire, using shallow pools to cool off in the Senegalese heat. Up to 90 percent of their home range burns annually—the result of human hunting or clearing ...