The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale’s entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee.
Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring over 100 of the author’s beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee life. The captivating pictures are accompanied by a simple, humorous and engaging text which tells you all about the contrasting lives of chimps in the wild and those being rehabilitated at rescue centers.

Part 1 - Being a Chimp – details their life in the wild - from birth, through growth and
development stages, to what makes them tick, what they eat, how they communicate and more.

Part 2 - Being helped to be a Chimp - covers the vastly different life of rehabilitating
chimps at rescue centres and what they go through learning to be chimps all over again.

Adrian Cale is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker, cameraman, writer and naturalist who has made acclaimed TV documentaries for international broadcasters including BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet and Sky. Many are also shown on well-known streaming services.

‘Emotive, informative, inspirational and enchanting, with stunning photographs and clear writing throughout… If chimps themselves could read, this might well be their own how-to-grow-up guide.’ Jane Goodall

‘A beautiful book with stunning photographs, this is a wonderfully humorous, informative book about chimps. Quite simply, a great read 
for all the family.’ Iolo Williams, BBC Wildlife TV Presenter