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Praise for A Primates Memoir
The odds would seem long against finding a book by a writer who has the various skills to tranquilize wild East African baboons with a blowgun, explain the scientific implications of his work, negotiate treacherous primate power struggles (especially those of H. sapiens), and write about it all with great wit and humanity. But A Primates Memoir is such a book, and Robert M. Sapolsky is such a writer.
George Packer, author of The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals
A witty concoction blending field biology, history, hilarious cross-cultural mishaps, and hair-raising adventure. What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, Birute Galdikas for orangutans, and Dian Fossey for gorillas, Sapolsky does in spades for baboons.
Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Mr. Sapolsky has been to the end of the road and come back with some of the best stories you will ever hear, and, in the process, has put his finger on some vast, comic common denominator. What you have in your hands is the reason to read books.
Pete Dexter, author of Paris Trout and The Paperboy
For all its high spirits and black humor, A Primates Memoir is a powerful meditation on the biological origins of baboon and human misery, as well as a naturalists coming-of-age story comparable to Jane Goodalls and E. O. Wilsons. As a memoirist, Sapolsky is a mensch, a prince among primates.
Caroline Fraser, Outside
This engrossing account of Robert Sapolskys life in science, set down with style and force, is brilliantly informative (baboons have long memories, and seek vengeance!) and heartbreakingly acute in its rendering of African lives, terrains, fates.
Norman Rush, author of Mating
A gem sidesplitting vignettes about monkey politics alternate with equally hilarious tales of misadventure on the backroads of East and Central Africa. [A Primates Memoir] will keep you chuckling from start to finish.
Unmesh Kher, Time
A Primates Memoir is witty, erudite, and full of baboons. What could be bad?
Allegra Goodman, author of Kaaterskill Falls
A tale of adventure, scienceand corruption. Four stars.
Sharon Begley, Newsweek
At the end of A Primates Memoir , I felt as though Id been on a guided tour of Africa with a wise, soulful, funny, generous, and deeply intelligent guide. Loved him, loved his insights about these strange and distant cultures, loved his baboons.
Caroline Knapp, author of Pack of Two
Filled with cynicism and awe, passion and humor, this memoir is both an absorbing account of a young mans growing maturity and a tribute to the continent that, despite its troubles and extremes, held him in its thrall.
Publishers Weekly (starred)
Touching Honor is a word that echoes in the readers consciousness throughout this funny, often elegiac rendering of a remarkable place and some magnificent creatures that call it home.
Margaria Fichtner, The Miami Herald
Powerful He tells fascinating stories that run an emotional gamut from absurdly hilarious to profoundly troubling, and those stories compel the kind of response that great stories always elicityou cant stop thinking about them. [The stories] will stick with you long after youve put down A Primates Memoir .
Jim Ericson and Patty Griffin Jensen, Minneapolis Star Tribune
What Jane Goodalls work might be like if she had a sense of humor.
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Engaging Sapolskys storytelling gifts make this book difficult to put down his scientific references [are] straightforward but enlightening poignant.
John Freeman, The Plain Dealer
Ceaselessly brilliant wonderful there is surprise and great drama.
Arthur Salm, The San Diego Union-Tribune
To his credit and our benefit, Sapolskys depiction of the African bush isnt shrouded in either gauzy, neocolonial paternalism or harsh, anticolonial righteousness. His stories are told with the hilarious realism of someone whod been there. When the book is finished, we wish it wasnt.
Rodger Brown, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Also by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Trouble with Testosterone
and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers:
A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death
To Benjamin and Rachel
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Copyright 2001 by Robert M. Sapolsky
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Scribner edition as follows:
Sapolsky, Robert M.
A primates memoir/Robert M. Sapolsky.
p. cm.
1. BaboonsBehaviorAfrica, EastAnecdotes.
2. Sapolsky, Robert M.
I.Title.
QL737.P93 S27 2001
599.8
651509676dc21
00-063522
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9036-1
ISBN-10: 1-4165-9036-6
The names and other identifying characteristics of some people have been changed.
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Part 1. The Adolescent Years:
When I First Joined the Troop
This is a memoir of my more than twenty years spent working intermittently in a national park in East Africa. The stories are true but, as is often the case in such retellings, subject to a bit of literary license that I want to describe here. The story of Wilson Kipkoi is true in most details. However, names and some other details have been changed to protect anonymity. The final chapter, unfortunately, is true in all its devastating details; however, here, too, I have changed names and certain characteristics. The chronology of the various chapters has been expanded in some places, truncated in others. In a few cases, the sequence of some stories has been changed; the sequence of all events in the lives of the baboons, however, is unchanged. Finally, a number of humans, and a number of baboons, represent composites of a few members of their species. This was done to keep down the cast of characters coming and goingfor example, within the human realm, a particular game-park ranger, British tour operator, or tourist-lodge waiter may be a composite of a few individuals. All of the major baboon figures are real individuals, as are the major human charactersRichard, Hudson, Laurence of the Hyenas, (the late) Rhoda, Samwelly, Soirowa, Jim Else, Mbarak Suleman, Ross Tarara, and, of course, Lisa are all real people. I, to the best of my knowledge, am not a composite.
A number of individuals helped me with fact checking, reading part or all of this book or, in the case of Soirowa, who cannot read, having sections in it related, in order to confirm the accuracy of facts as they remember them. As such, I thank Jim Else, Laurence Frank, Richard Kones, Hudson Oyaro, and Soirowa. I also thank Colin Warner for some formal fact checking in the library, and John McLaughlin, Anne Meyer, Miranda Ip, and Mani Roy for help in proofreading the manuscript. Thanks also to Robert Shanafelt for pointing out an error in the finished volume. Dan Greenwood and Carol Salem shared stories with me of their travels in East Africa, and I thank them for that. I thank Jonathan Cobb, Liz Ziemska, and Patricia Gadsby for their priceless editorial advice when reading what was a proto-version of this book, a number of years ago.
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