
Almost Human: A Journey Into The World Of Baboons
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...
Paperback: 323 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (September 15, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780226777566
ISBN-13: 978-0226777566
ASIN: 0226777561
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1981769
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“This is an engaging, honest and intriguing story documenting a scientist doing fieldwork/research on a baboon troop. Although vastly informative and fact-filled, it is written for a general reader and refreshingly free of jargon. Ms. Strum also all...”
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, learning about the tragedies and triumphs of their daily lives—and the lives of the scientists studying them. This edition includes a new introduction and epilogue that place Strum's research in the context of the current global conservation crisis and tell us what has happened to the Pumphouse Gang since the book was first published.
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