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Congo by Michael Crichton
4.0

3.5 rounded up. The first half was kinda slow, and a little too heavy on scientific explanations. Also the first half had too many random sexist/racist comments. At some point I don't need my fun adventure book to be so accurate in this respect. Second half was a lot better. The main humans had no redeaming qualities, Amy carried. 

The blatant abuse of the gorillas in captivity/scientific studies was wild (and accurate), and the comments on development of language/animal behavior and convergent evolution were interesting.