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050	0	0	_aQL737.P93 _bS27 2001
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100	1		_aSapolsky, Robert M.
245	1	2	_aA primate's memoir: a neuroscientist's unconventional life among the baboons _c/ Robert M. Sapolsky
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2001.
300			_a304 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aWhile Sapolsky's primate observations are always fascinating, his thoughts on Africa and Africans are even more compelling. As funny and irreverent as a good ol' boy regaling his friends with vacation-from-hell stories, Sapolsky can also be disarmingly emotional as in his clear-headed tribute to late gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, and his final chapters, which reveal his rage and impotence as he watched his baboons succumb to a horrific plague. Filled with cynicism and awe, passion and humor, this memoir is both an absorbing account of a young man's growing maturity and a tribute to the continent that, despite its troubles and extremes, held him in its thrall.
650		0	_aBaboons _x--Behavior _z--Africa, East _x--Anecdotes
651			_aEast Africa _x-Description and travel
942			_cMO
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