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Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science

Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science

Montgomery, Georgina M.

Hardcover

PrimatesZoology

ISBN10: 0813937361
ISBN13: 9780813937366
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Sep 21 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.27
Language: English

The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the animals. Primates in the Real World goes on to trace primatology's shift from short-term expeditions designed to help overcome centuries-old myths to the field's arrival as a recognized science sustained by a complex web of international collaborations. Considering a series of pivotal episodes spanning the twentieth century, Georgina Montgomery shows how individuals both within and outside of the scientific community gradually liberated themselves from primate folklore to create primate science. Achieved largely through a movement from the lab to the field as the primary site of observation, this development reflected an urgent and ultimately extremely productive reassessment of what constitutes natural behavior for primates.

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