Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons
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Rated 5 starsYOU NEED THIS BOOK!
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 allows feelings - her own and the baboons' - to enter into the picture, as George Schaller did in "Year of the Gorilla," although Ms. Strum writes with much more humor than Dr. Schaller...
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Rated 5 starsA SCIENTIST BECOMES A SAVIOUR
This book could not have come into my life at a more opportune time. As a Volunteer Wildlife Police Officer I am involved inter alia in investigation of illegal possession of all wild species. However I had developed a particular interest in and love for primates - notably here vervet monkeys and baboons which are the most commonly "kept" here. I had made it my goal to remove as many of these from private possession as humanly...
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Rated 5 starsAn important book of science and meta-science
Strum's account of her fieldwork is intensely interesting, as she looked past the "received wisdom" about baboon hierarchies and saw what was really going on. Of course baboons are not identical to humans - but the fundamental impulses of baboon behavior and their strategies for dealing with the their society and the world around them are similar to many things humans do; Strum claims no more than that.Just as fascinating...
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Rated 5 starsAlmost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons
This was a fascinating look at baboons society. It was also extraordinarily personal in perspective. The book was absorbing and easy to read science written in a very subjective voice. The author gets very emotionally involved in her subjects and lets that come through clearly. She presents a somewhat controversial approach to field work.
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Rated 5 starsWonderful-I felt like I was in the field with her
As someone who has studied primates in the field, I greatly related to this book. Studying primates is so rewarding and I enjoyed sharing her discoveries and her journey. It is an easy read, and you will not want to put it down. Kudos to Dr. Strum
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