I’ve been meaning to share this for some time, but Charles Siebert, an author who had an interesting New York Times Magazine piece about whales in July, also wrote a book about a retirement home for former ape movie stars. I thought the book, The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals, might have special resonance here in Stamford.
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If you are going to make this the next book read on the blog. Count me in for this one, definitely.
Was Charles Siebert the guy, by any chance, who did the cover story in the Times magazine last year about elephants? It was incredible. It beautifully portrayed the complex, emotional social order of elephant clans, and the trauma inflicted by people who kill family members.
There was a story in Esquire, I believe, back around the time of the chimpanzee tragedy here in Stamford about another, similar, incident at a refuge in, I believe, california.
Turns out Siebert was the guy who wrote about elephants: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html
This is the link for the Esquire story (is it possible Esquire is making a comeback? I surely hope so. It was such a great magazine for so long and then was taken over by writers whose sole purpose for writing was to shout “Hey Look at Me!” Then it devolved into a glorified Maxim. But there’s been some good stuff in it recently. I’m not convinced yet to re-up a subscription, but there’s promise.) Anyway this is the link. Beware, the writer titled it “The Worst Story I Ever Heard” for a reason: http://www.esquire.com/features/chimpanzee-attack-0409-3