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The Soul of the Ape and My Friends the Baboons

Author : Eugene Marais
Publisher : A Distant Mirror
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the Ape and My Friends the Baboons written by Eugene Marais and published by A Distant Mirror. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Marais spent three years living in the South African wilderness in close daily contact with a troop of baboons. He later described this as the happiest, most content time of his troubled life. This period produced two works which are testament to his research and conclusions; they have very different histories. Firstly, there was a series of articles written in Afrikaans for the newspaper Die Vaderland. They were then published in book form under the title Burgers van die Berge, and were first published in an English translation in 1939 under the title My Friends the Baboons. These pieces were written in a popular vein suitable to a newspaper readership, and were not regarded seriously by Marais himself. They are a journal; a series of anecdotes and impressions. The Soul of the Ape, which Marais wrote in beautifully clear and precise English, was the more serious scientific document; however after his death in 1936, it could not be found. It was lost for 32 years, and was recovered in 1968, and published the following year. The excellent introduction by Robert Ardrey that is included in this volume was part of the 1969 and subsequent editions of The Soul of the Ape, and adds greatly to an appreciation of its importance. Together, these three texts give us as complete a picture as we will ever get of Marais’ three year study of these complex relatives of humanity, and its implications for the study of consciousness.

My Friends the Baboon

Author : Eugène Nielen Marais
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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My Friends the Baboons

Author : Eugène Nielen Marais
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Friends the Baboons written by Eugène Nielen Marais and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baboon Metaphysics

Author : Dorothy L. Cheney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226102440
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Baboon Metaphysics written by Dorothy L. Cheney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals.

Wild Life

Author : Keena Roberts
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538745143
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life written by Keena Roberts and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.

Sex and Friendship in Baboons

Author : Barbara B. Smuts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351491288
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Friendship in Baboons written by Barbara B. Smuts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have been privileged to watch baboons long enough to know them as individuals and who have learned to interpret some of their more subtle interactions will attest that the rapid flow of baboon behavior can at times be overwhelming. In fact, some of the most sophisticated and influential observation methods for sampling vertebrate social behavior grew out of baboon studies, invented by scientists who were trying to cope with the intricacies of baboon behavior. Barbara Smuts' eloquent study of baboons reveals a new depth to their behavior and extends the theories needed to account for it.While adhering to the most scrupulous methodological strictures, the author maintains an open research strategy--respecting her subjects by approaching them with the open mind of an ethnographer and immersing herself in the complexities of baboon social life before formulating her research design, allowing her to detect and document a new level of subtlety in their behavior. At the Gilgil site, described in this book, she could stroll and sit within a few feet of her subjects. By maintaining such proximity she was able to watch and listen to intimate exchanges within the troop; she was able, in other words, to shift the baboons well along the continuum from ""subject"" to ""informant."" By doing so she has illuminated new networks of special relationships in baboons. This empirical contribution accompanies theoretical insights that not only help to explain many of the inconsistencies of previous studies but also provide the foundation for a whole new dimension in the study of primate behavior: analysis oft he dynamics of long-term, intimate relationships and their evolutionary significance.At every stage of research human observers have underestimated the baboon. These intelligent, curious, emotional, and long-lived creatures are capable of employing stratagems and forming relationships that are not easily detected by traditional research methods. In the process

Baboons! (Disney Junior: The Lion Guard)

Author : Apple Jordan
Publisher : Golden/Disney
ISBN 13 : 0736435646
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Baboons! (Disney Junior: The Lion Guard) written by Apple Jordan and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children ages 2 to 5 will enjoy reading this adventurous story about Kion and the rest of the amazing Lion Guard as they rescue a baby baboon from some hungry vultures! This full-color Little Golden Book retells an episode of the hit Disney Junior series.

Akimbo and the Baboons

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747594581
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Akimbo and the Baboons written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa and the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo story, a lady comes to study the baboons in the game reserve where Akimbo's father is the head ranger. Akimbo is keen to help and find out all he can about baboons - and in so doing comes closer to a much more dangerous animal …

My Life as a Belching Baboon with Bad Breath

Author : Bill Myers
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418553166
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book My Life as a Belching Baboon with Bad Breath written by Bill Myers and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Wally's friends have cooler stuff than he does, and even his prayers have turned into, "Dear God, gimme, gimme, gimme" until Dad drags him along on an aid project to Africa. He meets a boy his age who shows him what really counts in life and the key to real happiness.

Bobby Baboon's Banana Be-bop

Author : Barbara DeRubertis
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781575653051
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Bobby Baboon's Banana Be-bop written by Barbara DeRubertis and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Baboon brings bananas to give to his classmates at Alpha Betty's school, and, with the help of some friends, he figures out that he can share the extras.

A Primate's Memoir

Author : Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416590366
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Primate's Memoir written by Robert M. Sapolsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons. "I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky’s twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate’s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti—for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes enamored of his subjects—unique and compelling characters in their own right—and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.

Baboon Metaphysics

Author : Dorothy L. Cheney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226102424
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Baboon Metaphysics written by Dorothy L. Cheney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating response to Darwin’s challenge. Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual need. But Baboon Metaphysics is concerned with much more than just baboons’ social organization—Cheney and Seyfarth aim to fully comprehend the intelligence that underlies it. Using innovative field experiments, the authors learn that for baboons, just as for humans, family and friends hold the key to mitigating the ill effects of grief, stress, and anxiety. Written with a scientist’s precision and a nature-lover’s eye, Baboon Metaphysics gives us an unprecedented and compelling glimpse into the mind of another species. “The vivid narrative is like a bush detective story.”—Steven Poole, Guardian “Baboon Metaphysics is a distillation of a big chunk of academic lives. . . . It is exactly what such a book should be—full of imaginative experiments, meticulous scholarship, limpid literary style, and above all, truly important questions.”—Alison Jolly, Science “Cheney and Seyfarth found that for a baboon to get on in life involves a complicated blend of short-term relationships, friendships, and careful status calculations. . . . Needless to say, the ensuing political machinations and convenient romantic dalliances in the quest to become numero uno rival the bard himself.”—Science News “Cheney and Seyfarth’s enthusiasm is obvious, and their knowledge is vast and expressed with great clarity. All this makes Baboon Metaphysics a captivating read. It will get you thinking—and maybe spur you to travel to Africa to see it all for yourself.”—Asif A. Ghazanfar, Nature “Through ingenious playback experiments . . . Cheney and Seyfarth have worked out many aspects of what baboons used their minds for, along with their limitations. Reading a baboon’s mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than that, it bears on the evolution of the human mind and the nature of human existence.”—Nicholas Wade, New York Times

Sex and Friendship in Baboons

Author : Barbara B. Smuts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351491296
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Friendship in Baboons written by Barbara B. Smuts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have been privileged to watch baboons long enough to know them as individuals and who have learned to interpret some of their more subtle interactions will attest that the rapid flow of baboon behavior can at times be overwhelming. In fact, some of the most sophisticated and influential observation methods for sampling vertebrate social behavior grew out of baboon studies, invented by scientists who were trying to cope with the intricacies of baboon behavior. Barbara Smuts' eloquent study of baboons reveals a new depth to their behavior and extends the theories needed to account for it.While adhering to the most scrupulous methodological strictures, the author maintains an open research strategy--respecting her subjects by approaching them with the open mind of an ethnographer and immersing herself in the complexities of baboon social life before formulating her research design, allowing her to detect and document a new level of subtlety in their behavior. At the Gilgil site, described in this book, she could stroll and sit within a few feet of her subjects. By maintaining such proximity she was able to watch and listen to intimate exchanges within the troop; she was able, in other words, to shift the baboons well along the continuum from ""subject"" to ""informant."" By doing so she has illuminated new networks of special relationships in baboons. This empirical contribution accompanies theoretical insights that not only help to explain many of the inconsistencies of previous studies but also provide the foundation for a whole new dimension in the study of primate behavior: analysis oft he dynamics of long-term, intimate relationships and their evolutionary significance.At every stage of research human observers have underestimated the baboon. These intelligent, curious, emotional, and long-lived creatures are capable of employing stratagems and forming relationships that are not easily detected by traditional research methods. In the process

Railway Jack

Author : KT Johnston
Publisher : Capstone Editions
ISBN 13 : 1684460883
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Railway Jack written by KT Johnston and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2020 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with his disability but desperate to keep his job, Jim discovered a brilliant solution, a baboon named Jack. Jim trained Jack to help him both at home and at the depot. But when the railway authorities and the public discovered a monkey on the job, Jack and Jim had to work together to convince everyone that they made a great team. This inspiring true story celebrates the history of service animals and a devoted friendship.

My Friends the Baboons

Author : Eugène Nielen Marais
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book My Friends the Baboons written by Eugène Nielen Marais and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Woman That Never Evolved

Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038878
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Woman That Never Evolved written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.

Life With Darwin and other baboons

Author : Fransje van Riel
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143529781
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Life With Darwin and other baboons written by Fransje van Riel and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... baboons are neither devils nor saints but animals who like us have very individual personalities, experience a wide range of emotions and possess a capacity for reasoning.' These are the words of Kobie Kruger, best selling wildlife author, in her foreword to Life with Darwin. Of all the primates in Africa, the Chacma Baboon has arguably received the least attention in terms of comprehensive behavioural studies. Life with Darwin is an account of the work of Karin Saks who, through fostering orphaned baby baboons and attempting to rehabilitate them back into the wild, had the opportunity to observe and record the activities of a number of wild baboon troops. Through her daily interaction with them she brings fresh perspectives to our knowledge of an animal society that is both complex and well ordered. It is a fresh and accessible look at a species that has not always been sympathetically regarded, and its insights go a long way towards redressing this attitude.