Skip to main content Skip to footer site map

Additional Web and Print Resources

WEB SITES

World Wildlife Fund: Congo Basin Project
http://worldwildlife.org/gorillas/projects/deep_jungle.cfm
Learn more about Chloe Cipolletta’s work with western lowland gorillas.

Western Lowland Gorilla
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Gorilla_gorilla_gorilla.html
An in-depth profile from ANIMAL DIVERSITY WEB.

Killer Chimps Fuel Debate on How War Began
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/050209_warfrm.htm
This article from WORLD SCIENCE focuses on David Watts’ chimpanzee studies.

Tool Use by Wild Monkeys
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4083517.stm
British researchers have collected the first hard evidence of monkeys using tools.

Baka, or BaAka, People
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_pygmy
Who are the BaAka? More on Central Africa’s forest people from Wikipedia.

Baka Pygmies
http://www.pygmies.info/
Learn more about the life and music of the BaAka in this site by ethnomusicologist Mauro Campagnoli.

Angkor Wat
http://www.angkorwat.org/
Discover Angkor Wat’s history, design and architecture, as well as legends and mysteries associated with the city.

Maya Ruins
http://mayaruins.com/
Go on an interactive tour of Maya sites in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.

RELATED NATURE EPISODES

Deep Jungle: New Frontiers
https://pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deepjungle/ep1/
Part I of the Deep Jungle miniseries.

Deep Jungle: Monsters of the Forest
https://pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deepjungle/ep2/
Part II of the Deep Jungle miniseries.

BOOKS

Pearce, Fred. DEEP JUNGLE. Cornwall, England: Eden Project Books, 2005.

Turnbull, Colin. THE FOREST PEOPLE. New York: Touchstone, 1987.

Beck, Benjamin B. ANIMAL TOOL BEHAVIOR: THE USE AND MANUFACTURE OF TOOLS BY ANIMALS. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980.

Friedel, David. A FOREST OF KINGS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE ANCIENT MAYA. New York: Perennial, 1992.

Freeman, Michael. ANCIENT ANGKOR. London: Weatherhill, 1999.

Diamond, Jared. THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE: THE EVOLUTION AND FUTURE OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL. New York: Perennial, 1992.

 

SHARE

© 2024 WNET. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.