The story of a three-year-old chimpanzee named Ham who made history on January 31, 1961 by becoming the first intelligent being to ride an American rocket into suborbital space.
In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. Brimming with empathy and winning stories of Grow and her charges, "The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary" is an absorbing, big-hearted text that grapples with questions of just what man owes to the animals who are his nearest genetic relations.
Beppo the Super-Monkey joins with the Wonder Twins and their space chimp, Gleek, to stop the evil ape Gorilla Grodd from turning a day of fun in Metropolis into a disaster.