Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongs...

Cecil writes about the Lion and Cheetah Park in Africa where a troop of baboons led by a dominant male going by the name of Mango wreaks havoc among visitors and tourists.

Nonhuman primates have played critical roles in biomedical research, and they are among the few animals whose use in research continues to increase. The scienti?c value of nonhuman primates derives from their close phylogenetic proximity to man and their consequent anatomic, physiologic, and genetic similarities to man. Only nonhuman primates can provide adequate models for many complex physiological and disease processes of humans. The baboon is a relative newcomer to the repertoire of no...

Baboons are neither devils nor saints but animals who like us have very individual personalities, experience a wide range of emotions and possess a capacity for reasoning.' These are the words of Kobie Kruger, best selling wildlife author, in her foreword to Life with Darwin. Of all the primates in Africa, the Chacma Baboon has arguably received the least attention in terms of comprehensive behavioural studies. Life with Darwin is an account of the work of Karin Saks who,...

Rosie spends every spare moment reading her favourite book "A World Of Animals" because she loves learning about anything animal related. However, it is no ordinary book and Rosie is no ordinary child. When the pages begin to glow Rosie gets magically whisked away to far-away lands where she can talk to animals.Having the ability to talk to animals comes in handy when Rosie is transported to the Savannah Grasslands where she encounters a very grumpy baboon.Will she be able ...

Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors brings together the most recent information on the behavior and ecology of Papio baboons and early hominins. Building on a long tradition and integrating recent developments, it discusses the ways that baboon behavior can enhance our understanding of our early ancestors. This approach augments interpretation of the archeological record and provides hypotheses for the gaps in the record and for the millions of years before the record beg...

Was the Titanic doomed because of its name? Can you really "swallow the anchor"?Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch is a collection of unusual, nautical-based phrases and trivia tidbits for Jack Tars* and landlubbers** alike. Author and mariner Frank Lanier began to compile these entries while serving in the Coast Guard; they were included in the Plan of the Day published aboard the various ships Lanier was stationed on starting in the 1980s. He explains these colorful terms a...

Compilation of richly autobiographical free verse from the Stourbridge writer who is one half of the performance duo, The Incredible Fake Twins.

Petite Classics for Easiest Piano Booklet L2 Popular Classics for Beginner and Novice Pianists by SilverTonalities! Letter Names Embedded in Noteheads For Quick and Easy Reading! Booklet L2 includes: - Ape the Monkey and Baboon by Thomas Weelkes - Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel - Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar

I love you more than a baboon’s bum, a kangaroo’s bum, a slimy slug’s bum!Stuffed full of all sorts of animal bums and celebrating love in all it's wonderful shapes and sizes, this hilarious new picture book is sure to have little ones, and big ones, laughing with pure glee.Featuring cheeky illustrations from the incredible Ben Whitehouse and with stellar rhyming text throughout, welcome to the brilliantly silly world of I LOVE YOU MORE THAN A BABOON'S BUM!...

John the Baboon is a warm and humorous children's story about a clever baboon who likes doing things differently. While the other baboons run up and down a steep mountain cliff, John prefers sliding down on his bum. The others laugh at him, but when a hungry leopard appears, John's unusual way of doing things helps save the entire troop.The adventure continues when the baboons visit a nearby orange farm, where juicy oranges, barking dogs, and a very angry farmer le...

The amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons—and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.In 1972, renowned anthropologist Shirley C. Strum traveled to Kenya to study the origins of human aggression through observing baboons. What Dr. Strum discovered completely defied her expectations, scientific notions about baboons, and even well-established assumptions about primate behavior writ larg...