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In 2005, a group of four chimpanzees managed to escape their pen in the small, rural Zoo Nebraska and began to run amok in the zoo and the surrounding neighborhood. After failing to sedate the animals with tranquilizer guns, and despite the fact that no one had been injured, the zoo director himself grabbed a handgun and started shooting. Only one chimp made it back to his pen to survive the day of freedom. In his new book The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals, Charles Siebert examines the complex пІп‚БЂ« and too often violent and exploitative пІп‚БЂ« relationship between man and chimp. Siebert talks to a group of creationists, who trot out the old (Testament) trope of humans given "dominion" over the animals. But, as he points out, we have taken that dominion and used it to dress apes in funny costumes in the movies and the circus; to drug or murder female primates in order to sell their exotic offspring as pets; and to destroy habitats and poach and torture for sport. Siebert blends science writing, travel journalism, history and philosophy to argue for a new approach to human-animal interaction, one that includes respect and compassion. He notes that the line between human and animal is a thin one, and it gets thinner when we learn about the tool-making capabilities of corvoids or the language abilities of whales. While we know that apes can have nervous breakdowns from the stress of experimentation or confinement, or that elephants experience post traumatic stress dis

The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals By Charles Siebert Hardcover, 224 pages Scribner List price: $25

A Call For Understanding Between Man And Chimp