A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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Rating | : | 4.28 (694 Votes) |
Asin | : | B00H5A0FFS |
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Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-09-28 |
Language | : | English |
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Loretto said For a person who majored in animal science, this book is a good as it gets.. RS had the wonderful privilege of observing and collecting data on his favorite type of animal. Sounds and read like heaven to me.I read a lot of the one star reviews and laugh. So the editing is bad, the book is isn't a text on the natural science of olive baboons, nor is it a good travel guide. It is the story of a guy with great curiosity towa. Nikki E. Graybeal said Treat yourself to a great ride in Kenya. One of my MOST favorite books. Sapolsky writes very personal reactions and observations about the baboons he is studying, adds wonderfully dry wit and acknowledges his own shortcomings and eccentricities while teaching you a wealth of information about these animals. He also injects interesting commentaries about some of the local tribes he inter. Hard To Believe What An Entertaining Read This Was! Last year I stumbled on some photos of baby gorillas. Then I went down to the zoo to look at them. Cutest little buggers And somehow, from there, from reading about gorillas, I stumbled on baboons. And found them, and their ways, even more interesting. I'd read several other books on baboons, before coming on this oneand what a joy this was to re
By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes ever more 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. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled 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 sc