A Primate's Memoir
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Hardcover
Helpful Score: 1
I really liked A Primate's Memoir, for a lot of reasons. The opening line among them...
I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year. I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.
That first line had me when it was used on NPR years ago, and it worked well when I read the book. The book recounts Sapolsky's adventures studying a babboon troop in Kenya and knocking about Africa and by turns its interesting, amusing, harrowing and moving. Sapolsky humanizes the baboons, or at least makes them interesting and sympathetic to me - a reach because I file them under "Carnivorous and too damn clever for my comfort."
The book closes sadly for me because the troop gets nailed by something that is entirely avoidable, but every day in Kenya.
I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year. I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.
That first line had me when it was used on NPR years ago, and it worked well when I read the book. The book recounts Sapolsky's adventures studying a babboon troop in Kenya and knocking about Africa and by turns its interesting, amusing, harrowing and moving. Sapolsky humanizes the baboons, or at least makes them interesting and sympathetic to me - a reach because I file them under "Carnivorous and too damn clever for my comfort."
The book closes sadly for me because the troop gets nailed by something that is entirely avoidable, but every day in Kenya.
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