Gorillas in Our Midst
A Zookeeper’s Tale of Hand-Rearing Baby Gorillas as featured on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live
$21.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2025
Summary
“Funny and messy” - The Mail on Sunday
Step into the fascinating world of Bristol Zoo with Alan Toyne, a dedicated zookeeper and primate expert whose extraordinary story of hand-rearing two baby gorillas will warm your heart.
When Afia, a newborn Western Lowland Gorilla, is rejected by her mother Kera after a difficult birth, her human keepers must start the challenging - but rewarding - experience of hand-rearing her themselves. Teaching her the rope…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837995257 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837995257 |
| Author: | Alan Toyne |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 197mm x 185mm |
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Critics Review
[Alan’s] account of life with the gorillas is funny and messy. – Constance Craig Smith * The Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Alan Toyne
Alan Toyne is an Anthropology graduate with a specialism in primate politics. He has a fascination with the similarities between human beings and our ape and monkey cousins. He traveled extensively in search of wild primates and became a zookeeper at Bristol Zoo in 2008.
Working with the troop of Western Lowland Gorillas at Bristol Zoo for fourteen years, he built close working relationships with the animals and went on to hand-rear and successfully reintroduce two baby Western Lowland Gorillas.
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