"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 remote 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 the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore 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.
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一位生物学家在肯尼亚二十多年野外工作的手记，为他熟识的一群男女狒狒作的传记，为东非撒哈拉以南至塞伦盖提这片地域上城市乡村山野不同人群和文化描的速写。看到结尾为那几只狒狒哭的稀里哗啦。真没见过搞科学的人写出这样风生水起的文字。想读更多的关于非洲的书。
评分“猿类学”版的田野研究笔记，太精彩了！各种欢乐，各种感动！
评分非常吸引人的书！本书作者曾经做过神经外科医生，后来去非洲研究动物行为，获过全美教学奖，课堂上经常实力吐槽斯坦福大学……这样的教授写的书怎么可能错过！
评分对这本书内容的组织形式不大欣赏...
评分“猿类学”版的田野研究笔记，太精彩了！各种欢乐，各种感动！
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