A primate's memoir : a neuroscientist's unconventional life among the baboons
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Published
New York : Scribner, [2001].
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm.
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Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
599.8 SAPOLSKY
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Published
New York : Scribner, [2001].
Format
Book
Street Date
0103.
Language
English
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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 Savannah 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 remote 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 the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sapolsky, R. M. (2001). A primate's memoir: a neuroscientist's unconventional life among the baboons . Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sapolsky, Robert M. 2001. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sapolsky, Robert M. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Scribner, 2001.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sapolsky, Robert M. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Scribner, 2001.
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