In Quest of the Sacred Baboon : : A Scientist's Journey / / Hans Kummer.
In a tale that begins at a zoo in Zurich and takes us across the deserts of Ethiopia to the Asir Mountains in Saudi Arabia, Hans Kummer recreates the adventure and intellectual thrill of the early days of field research on primates. Just as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey introduced readers to the fasc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (364 p.) :; 16 line drawings 34 halftones1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- MAP OF STUDY AREA
- PREFACE. Return to Red Rock
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. The Hamadryas Baboon: A Desert Saint and Lecher
- CHAPTER ONE. The Zoo Baboons
- CHAPTER TWO. On to Ethiopia
- CHAPTER THREE. The One-Sided Marriage
- CHAPTER FOUR. Tensions, Conventions, and Alliances among Males
- CHAPTER FIVE. Life Histories
- CHAPTER SIX. Experts in a Thorny Land
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Anatomy of the Social Relationship
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Net and the Sword
- CHAPTER NINE. The Eye of the Beholder
- CHAPTER TEN. Mahdi
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Likely Evolution of Hamadryas Society: A Reconstruction and a Summary
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX