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Author : Kevin J. Holmes
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736804943
Introduces the baboon's physical characteristics, habits, food, and relationship to humans.
Author : David Jones
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554512966
Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about flying back to his parents’ research camp in the African savanna. While his biologist mom and dad study baboon behavior, he’ll be thinking about the video arcade and restaurants back in the city. Suddenly, their small plane’s engine stutters and dies. They go down hard. Gerry wakes up thinking a baboon has broken his fall. He’s shocked to realize the furry arm is his own. Somehow, he’s become one of the beasts his parents are studying. Gerry’s only chance is to stay with the baboon troop. His parents don’t recognize him and he begins to lose hope he’ll ever be human again. His final, desperate bid to turn back means giving up the animal family he’s come to care about for the human family where he truly belongs. BABOON is the riveting story of one teenager’s journey into the heart of the baboon world, where he confronts terrifying attacks by predators and humans, threatening behavior within the troop, and the day-to-day struggle to survive.
Author : Barbara B. Smuts
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780202368849
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 of unraveling their complex social relationships, Smuts has revealed that these masters of strategy and aggressive competition are equally capable of patience, tenderness, and concern. "Barbara B. Smuts" is professor of psychology and anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also the author of Primate Societies.
Author : Michaël Escoffier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1783444827
If you love word games and riddles, you are really going to love this book! If you love cats, rats, rabbits, and baboons, then this book is for you! If you like reading or are just learning to read, this book is for you!
Author : Alexander McCall Smith,Peter Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0747594589
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 …
Author : John L. VandeBerg,Sarah Williams-Blangero,Suzette D. Tardif
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387759913
Nonhuman primates have played critical roles in biomedical research, and they are among the few animals whose use in research continues to increase. The scienti?c value of nonhuman primates derives from their close phylogenetic proximity to man and their consequent anatomic, physiologic, and genetic similarities to man. Only nonhuman primates can provide adequate models for many complex physiological and disease processes of humans. The baboon is a relative newcomer to the repertoire of nonhuman primates used in biomedical research. However, in less than 50 years since its ?rst use in the U. S. , it has become one of the most popular laboratory primate species. It is larger than the other widely used monkey species, making it advantageous for many types of experiments and technological developments. It is extraordinarily hardy and highly fecund in captivity. It closely resembles humans in a variety of physiological and disease processes, such as cholesterol metabolism, early stages of atherosclerosis, and alcoholic liver disease. Its chromosomes closely resemble those of humans, and many genes of the two species lie in the same chromosomal order. Among all primates, baboons are the most widely used models for the genetics of susceptibility to complex diseases and they are the ?rst nonhuman primate for which a framework genetic linkage map was established. In addition, the baboon genome is currently being sequenced, and as a result the utility of this species for biomedical research will be dramatically increased.
Author : Shirley C. Strum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226777561
"In the same way that Jane Goodall's pioneering study of chimpanzees revealed their likeness to humans, Strum's work shows how, contrary to the popular image and the scientific evidence of the time, the more distantly related baboons are just as socially savvy.
Author : Barbara B. Smuts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351491280
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
Author : Gillian Houghton Gosman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448854141
Baboons are a group of five species of larger primates that live in Africa and Arabia. These loud and aggressive terrestrial apes are a fascinating group that readers will love learning about in this exciting resource. This fact-filled volume describes the large, complex groups that baboons form and examines the effect that human and baboon populations have on one another.
Author : Dorothy L. Cheney,Robert M. Seyfarth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226102443
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Author : Apple Jordan
Publisher : Golden/Disney
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780736435642
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.
Author : Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781416590361
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.
Author : Christina Wilsdon
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433944741
Presents a story about how baby baboons grow, and provides information about different types of baboons, their bodies, and how they live, as well as a look at baboons in the world.
Author : Eugène Nielen Marais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Baboons
ISBN : UCSC:32106002581996
Author : Larissa Swedell,Steven R. Leigh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387336749
This volume brings together current research on the behavior, ecology, reproduction, and life history of baboons of the genus Papio, shedding light on what makes baboons successful. The book focuses on issues such as infanticide, mating strategies and investment, hybridization and genetics. The findings have broad applications to understanding the evolution of complex life history adaptations in other primates, and of humans in particular.