Almost Human A Journey into the World of Baboons

Name: Almost Human A Journey into the World of Baboons
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ISBN: 9780226777566

ISBN-10: 0226777561

ISBN-13: 9780226777566

Edition: 2001

Authors: Shirley C. Strum

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In 1972, a young graduate student named Shirley Strum traveled to Kenya to study a troop of olive baboons (Papio anubis) nicknamed the Pumphouse Gang. Like our own ancestors, baboons had adapted to life on the African savannah, and Strum hoped that by observing baboon behavior, she could learn something about how early humans might have lived. Soon the baboons had won her heart as well as her mind, and Strum has been working with them ever since. Vividly written and filled with fascinating insights, Almost Human chronicles the first fifteen years of Strum's fieldwork with the Pumphouse Gang. From the first paragraph, the reader is drawn along with Strum into the world of the baboons,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 323
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Author's Note


Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Starting Out



Two Newcomers



Peggy



Changes



Issues



Starting on the Males



The Saga of Sherlock



Bo and David



Some Solutions



Smart Baboons



Implications



Woes



Crop Raiding



Humans



Searching



Desperation-and a Happy Ending



Capture and Release



Final Moves



Freedom


Appendices



Communication



Table 1-Peggy: A Baboon Family


Table 2-Peggy: Fifteen Minutes


Table 3-A Field Worker's Daily


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Epilogue