The gorilla in the story is an unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

In this novel-in-verse that picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob, Ruby recounts her life before the circus when her caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa comes for a visit. Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob . Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories...

Now available in paperback for the first time, Ishmael is the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award--a prize for fiction that offers solutions to global problems. When a man in search of truth answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious students, he finds himself alone in an abandoned office with a gorilla named Ishmael.

Explains how gorillas are like people; describes their habitat and what they do each day and discusses the dangers that they face.

Includes descriptions of the physical charachteristics of these gorillas as well as information about how they live, including how they eat, raise their young, and adapt to their environment.

When her best friend, the sailor Henry Koskela, is falsely accused of murder, a gorilla named Sally Jones visits the run-down docks of Lisbon, embarks on a dizzying journey across the seven seas, and calls on the Maharaja of Bhapur's magnificent court--all in an attempt to clear Henry's name.

Introduces gorillas, describing their physical features, what they eat, where they live, and how they care for their young.

Explores the life and murder of Fossey who lived in Africa among the last remaining mountain gorillas.

Raised by gorillas, Tarzan has made the jungle his home and the animals his friends. But with the appearance of humans, the only world Tarzan has ever known and the one in which he belongs are about to become one.