num_pages: 251
description: A moving heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperernow the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot.Stany Nyandwis gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a chimpanzee whisperer. His skills and devotion to these creaturesour closest living relatives with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNAhave earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa and around the world. But he began life in poverty born and raised in a dirt-floor straw-roofed hut in rural Burundi. I Am Stany is the story of his astonishing life journey.It is also an African story. Receiving only an elementary education before he quit school he suffered injustice and tragic loss because of his ethnic group. He began caring for orphaned and rescued chimps in Burundi. When the country descended into civil war and genocide he was forced to flee with the chimps and endured long separation from his family. Continuing to work with and learn about chimpanzees in Kenya Uganda and later South Africa he made himself into an incomparable authority.His memoir has adventure danger and many unique and touching stories about chimpanzees that show his bond with and understanding of them. As told to award-winning author David Blissett it reveals a remarkable man who has refused to let circumstances defeat him. Conditioned by hate wounded by loss he has lived for love faith and compassion giving new life as Dr. Jane Goodall writes in her foreword to so many chimpanzees whose families like his own were torn apart by violence.
language: English
title: The Chimpanzee Whisperer: A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation
publisher: Arcade