Baboon Metaphysics
In 1992, biology professor Dorothy Cheney and psychology professor Robert Seyfarth set up camp on the savanna of Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve. With graduate students and postdocs, the wife-and-husband team followed a group of Chacma baboons for years, recording data on details of daily living. The researchers also devised ingenious experiments that probed how thoroughly the animals understood the kin relations that structure their group. Cheney and Seyfarth tell the story of this field research in their book Baboon Metaphysics.
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