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Handbook of Primate Husbandry and Welfare covers all aspects of primate care and management both in the laboratory environment and in zoos. From the welfare and ethics of primate captivity through to housing and husbandry systems, environmental enrichment, nutritional requirements, breeding issues, primate diseases, and additional information on transportation and quarantine proceedings, this book provides a completely comprehensive guide to good husbandry and management of primates. Designed to be a practical field manual, the authors present the material using lists, tables and illustrations to clarify best practice.

• Representative species are covered – from marmosets through to macaques
• One of the first books dedicated to the care of primates in captivity
• Written by authors with many years of experience working with primates
• Suitable for those working with primates in either laboratories or zoos

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Joanna Greenfield dreamed of traveling to East Africa to study one of the last known populations of wild chimpanzees. When she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance, the young student set off from peaceful Kenya into politically hazardous Uganda. From there, a small team of guides led her into the mountains.

In stunningly evocative language, Greenfield depicts the beauty of the rainforest and the determination required to wait for one transcendent encounter in the wild. But even one of the most remote places in the world is not immune to terrifying man-made conflict. Greenfield and her team are robbed by poachers and harassed by soldiers. Eventually, it becomes too dangerous to continue her research, though she knows she may never be allowed to return.

THE LION'S EYE is the true story of one woman's burning mission to connect with animals--an adventure story and against-the-odds quest for a wilderness few of us have ever glimpsed. ... Read more

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Uniquely Her Own
Joanna Greenfield was fearless when it came to pursuing her passion for studying animals in the wild. I was caught up in her adventures and finished the book admiring her courage and resourcefulness. She lived in the remote Africa bush withoutmodern conveniences while she studied the habits of assorted animals. Her lyrical writing, describing the landscape, the animals and their behavior, the guides, the living conditions and the dangers, is uniquely her own. I highly recommend this book.

The Lion's Eye
//The Lion's Eye// is the true story of one woman's passion for the animal kingdom that sent her on an adventure to the remote and natural habitats of Africa.What is unique about this book is not necessarily the tale itself, but the reading experience this first-time author takes you on. //The Lion's Eye// is not a book for the casual reader.You must truly love the written word to be captivated by this writer's style of writing.

Before Joanna Greenfield was born, her eyes lost their attachment to each other, and, therefore, the ability to analyze data in tandem.This left her with no depth perception and, oddly enough, animals became the only thing that could pull her eyes together for a few seconds at a time.Joanna saw the world differently than most of us and describes her journey to Africa with such incredible detail that you absolutely must relish every word.

I am delighted to have had the opportunity to review this book.Had I picked it up in a book store and read the Prologue, I may have not only been disenchanted, but a bit repulsed by the far-too descriptive tale on those first few pages. However, getting past that, I immediately found myself enthralled, soaking in every word, and completely fascinated by the author's tale. For the reader who wants to be pulled into a labyrinth of words forming sentences that require you to sit back and savor what you just read; then I highly recommend //The Lion's Eye//.

Reviewed by Doreen Erhardt

More than just an adventure in Africa
I just don't know how a person learns to write like Joanna Greenfield.For years after reading a piece by her in The New Yorker describing how she was nearly eaten by a hyena in Israel, I've looked for more of her writing.Nothing turned up until this full, lovely book, The Lion's Eye.While it is the story of her student research on chimpanzees and monkeys in Uganda, that is just the skeleton of the book. I found it hard to read quickly, and sometimes I had to read it out loud to myself, because it often is poetry disguised as prose.The story is interesting, the science instructive, and the author's vulnerability amazes.But I think a voice as beautiful as the author's is rarely found in print.

Africa's beauty-- true but not romanticized
For anyone who loves Africa or loves animals, this is a must-read.

Greenfield spent time during college studying chimpanzees in the rainforests of Uganda, at a time when Uganda was barely out of its Idi Amin horror years. Her book offers insight about animal behavior, nature writing and philosophy about the meaning of life.

What I most appreciated about the book was the balance the author brought to her findings. Animals are depicted as beautiful and soulful-- check out her descriptions of leopards hiding in plain sight in an acacia tree on the plain in Kenya. The image of the chimp relaxing in ecstasy as he is groomed by his mother-- both up in a tree in the first ray of sunshine after days of unrelenting rain-- makes me want to get back on a plane to Africa.

But Greenfield doesn't romanticize Africa-- she sees its problems clearly. Her description of the child soldiers inspecting her passport at a bus checkpoint-- and deciding if she lives or dies-- is all too real. And her lament about the endless expansion of Nairobi's population at the expense of land for wild creatures hits at misguided US foreign policy without being overtly political.

This multi-layered book has me thinking, and it will do the same for you too. Highly recommended reading.

dark, poignant and poetic
"The Lion's Eye" is a beautifully crafted,poignant, mesmerizing dark and soulful story of a woman trying to connect withanimals and with people, and reconnect withher childhood and herself. I couldn't put it down. ... Read more

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In the 1960s, it was believed that no more than about 4,000orang-utans remained in the wild. Consequently, IUCN -- TheWorld Conservation Union -- declared the ape an endangeredspecies, demanding its world-wide protection. Nevertheless, theorang-utan today faces extinction because it is dependent on arain-forest habitat that is rapidly being demolished due to humangreed, and a growing human population. Rijksen was among the first to make a detailed study of the ape in thewild, emerging as an authority on orang-utan conservation. In the late1980s he became so alarmed by local rumours of the rapid decline ofwild orang-utans that he initiated the study leading to this book.Meijaard conducted the ambitious, island-spanning surveys in Borneoand Sumatra to reveal the ape's whereabouts. This is the story of their findings. It is the first comprehensivestudy of the ape's distribution and status based on a wealth offirst-hand field data, and a frank, disturbing account of a mixture ofgood intentions, ignorance and greed, spelling doom for our Asianrelative. Nevertheless, the authors emphasise that the orang-utan can survive. Arealistic plan to save the ape, and with it thousands of unique wildanimals and plants, does exist. It is the authors' hope that OurVanishing Relative, so urgent and eloquent in its description ofthe deadly net of problems descending over our helpless relative, willawaken attention and empathy in order to safeguard the future of theorang-utan. ... Read more

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Excellent !!!
Seeing its forbidding price here I realize how lucky I was to pick up an Indonesian edition for just a few dollars...
An extremely throughly written book dealing with all imaginable aspects of orangutan conservation, pulling no punches when pointing out mistakes made by conservationists so far.
I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone seriously interested in the survival of these apes.
If you have already read more popular books like Birute Galdikas' "Reflections of Eden" or Linda Spalding's "A Dark Place in the Jungle" and are left wishing for more balanced, serious information you could find nothing better than this one.
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An impressive portrayal of our closest relatives in their natural habitat by a leading wildlife photographer. Monkeys and apes as never seen before. ... Read more

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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.Amazon.com Review
Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't GetUlcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior,decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at theAmerican Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principalto let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel and beans.

His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a fewdarts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, mayhave indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by herunstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucratswhose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wildcharges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, asubject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to savespecies and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle,"he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be tocollect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the uniquepattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again."--Gregory McNamee ... Read more

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On Tourists and Baboons...
"A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons" is a series of chronological essays about Dr. Sapolsky's research in Africa. While I don't expect you to start darting tourists in museums to take their blood and analyze their stress hormone levels after reading this book, if you're entertaining such thoughts, it shows your true potential in usability research! [...]

Not What I Expected, But In A Good Way
Though the title clearly states "memoir", I still thought this book would mostly be about baboons and their lives. However, that is actually only a component of the book, and a somewhat small component at that.

The book opens typically, with background info on the author, and how he got to where he went, what he was doing there, etc. Scattered throughout the chapters are stories of baboons, but the book was largely about Saplosky's adventures in Africa.

Stories of desert crossings, gorilla pilgramages to the mountains, encounters with "wild" bushman, etc etc. It was a real slice of life type book, covering not only the happy, successful aspects of fieldwork, but also the down and dirty, unhappy times. This was truly an adventure book, with chapters that were at times so exciting I literally had to keep reading to see how he'd get himself out of some given situation.

Though I bought it to learn about primates (baboons specifically), it did let me down in that regard. However, as a whole, the book might have taught me even more. Plus it made me laugh out loud, and any book that can make me laugh (not smile, not smirk, not giggle) is always worth a read.

At it's core - an alarming book.
A friend gave me this book to read. I'm convinced that is the best way to get a book recommendation. Your friends know you best. I loved this book. It's funny. It's sad and you learn so much about a country and its people and animals to which most of us will never be exposed.

A True Hero
Sapolsky is a hero: courageous, conscientious, well intentioned, adaptable, sensitive, hardworking.He enjoys both people and nature.As a younger man (memoir spans many years), he is too adventurous:I was almost offended by his hitchhiking adventures, in which his naiveté could easily have gotten him killed.

This is a fascinating memoir, written in a light,wry style. The picture Sapolsky paints ofEast African life is filled with many good people, but endemic corruption, and at the end Sapolsky allows his anger to show.Many elements of Massai tradition are difficult for a Western liberal to accept.

The most significant aspect of baboon behavior, for me, is that there is room for marked difference in individual personality unrelated to status or circumstance. Sapolsky is a little understated about the dangers baboons face (cf. Cheney, Dorothy L. and Robert M. Seyfarth:Baboon Metaphysics), but perhaps this varies by location - Sapolsky's troop did not have to worry about crocodiles for example; and Sapolsky is understated about the dangers he himself faced.

Should have stuck to the baboons.
This book isn't about baboons, it's about Sapolsky and happens to contain baboons in it. I like Sapolsky's style of writing about the baboons, but the amount of pages on them are really not very much. Sapolsky applaudably abandons the rigid, old-style scientific "objectivity" in describing the stories of the baboons and tells them as they should be told. I liked how he spoke of who and what actions he liked and disliked (even what baboons he fancied). However he shows no remorse or acknowledgement of issues with darting and anesthetizing the baboons.

Even in the non-baboon chapters, Sapolsky seems intent on telling us how this or that made him feel and interestingly seems to have remarkable (and questionable) insight into how others are feeling or thinking. With such subjective banter one might very well wonder if it doesn't also reflect into the chapters on the baboons. But much of it is just I went here and there etc.

I suppose those parts can be good if you're into the "adventure in the savannas and other strange lands of Africa" type of book, and the rest if you can take Sapolsky's word on some things. But if you wanted to get a book to read about baboons, be warned that they're only a part of this one. And it's a shame because he does write very well on them. ... Read more

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New information about disease transmission, dietary and economic linkage, and the continuing international focus on conservation and primate research have created a surge of interest in primates, and focus on the diverse interaction of human and nonhuman primates has become an important component in primatological and ethnographic studies. By examining the diverse and fascinating range of relationships between humans and other primates and observing how this plays a critical role in conservation practice and programs, Primates Face to Face disseminates the information gained from the anthropological study of nonhuman primates to the wider academic and non-academic world. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases on March 1, 2010. The length of the article is 3221 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The survival of primates in their natural habitats is of growing concern to primatologists, ecologists and conservationists. In this volume, research on feeding behaviour, nutrition and digestive physiology from captive and wild primates is presented. Correlates of the habitat and social organisation are discussed, and then integrated with the pressing problem of how to conserve primates. Broad issues of confrontation between human and non-human primate populations are considered in the light of conflicting priorities for land-use and development. The increased knowledge of what primates require for their survival is applied to problems of captive propagation as a means of reducing dependence on exploiting wild populations. The papers presented in this volume will stimulate discussion between ecologists, conservationists and those concerned with land-use management to establish realistic policies for primate conservation. ... Read more

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Jack Throp has pursued a life-long career of working with wild animals, birds, and to some extent, reptiles. He is a retired Zoo Director and lives in Birmingham, Alabama where he still follows his interest as an ardent volunteer in the Birmingham Zoo. His years of work with animals, along with his knack for observing both animals and people, has supplied him with a rich assortment of amusing, entertaining and enlightening stories.
"For animal lovers such as myself, it's always fun to learn about the behind-the-scenes life at various zoos, and in Not-So-Wild Animals I Have Known, retired Zoo Director Jack Throp serves up a delicious dish of Tasmanian Devils, koalas, camels, cheetahs, and some very odd wombats. Reading about the antics of these animals is a real treat, especially when Throp takes us nose-close to the action." -- Betty Webb, author of THE ANTEATER OF DEATH and DESERT CUT: A LENA JONES MYSTERY
"Jack Throp's Not-So-Wild Animals I Have Known will forever change our views on camels, koalas and other interesting zoo animals. Throp provides a fresh perspective on the role humans have played in changing the unique behaviors of zoo animals. Warning: reading this book may inspire you to visit your local zoo!" -- Dr. Jodi Sexton, veterinarian ... Read more

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Wonderful Orangutan Book
While working in Jakarta, Indonesia, a co-worker showed me this book and I was fascinated.I ordered it immediately from Amazon and loved it.Of course, my interest in orangutans may have influenced my decision.After reading the book, I was able to make a trip to Tanjung Puting/Borneo in September of 2008.Reading the book provided the knowledge to make the trip much more interesting.Reading about Birute Galdikas' accomplishments with these animals and her devotion to them is an amazing story.

Leakey's Least Known Field Researcher
I bought this book at a talk by Birute Gladikas at New Mexico State University.I had heard of her work in Borneo, but many of my co-workers did not know who she was, although they would have easily recognized the name of Jane Goodall, and possibly Dian Fossey, in part because Goodall has been more in the news and in part because of Fossey's unfortunate death.As Gladikas gave her talk, it was again impressed on me how heroic all three had been in their efforts to study and then protect the great apes they were assigned.While it has been said that Fossey got too involved with her gorillas, leading to her murder, one can easily understand her rage at human brutality toward her subjects. Both Goodall and Gladikas had to face similar challenges and managed to survive (although not always easily!) For her part, Gladikas has captured the difficulties and triumphs of her life in "Reflections of Edan: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo".

Certainly all three young women faced unbelievable challenges in studying great apes in the wild.Goodall and Fossey had to deal with the political instability in Central Africa at the time of their studies on chimpanzees and gorillas, and Fossey was especially pressed by poachers.To a large degree Gladikas had to deal with both, but she did so with remarkable finesse and diplomacy.

However, as Gladikas would say I'm sure, the real story is about the orangutans themselves.These creatures, which share 97% of our DNA, are as fascinating as the other great apes. These are perhaps among the least social of the apes and harken back to the early evolution of that branch of the primate line. It is a great shame that human greed for palm oil, timber, gold and zircons, as well as poached baby orangutans, has threatened them with extinction.Gladikas, like the other "Leakey angels", has had to turn her attention away from research to the conservation of the Bornean orangutans. She has done this very effectively and I really stand in awe of the difficulties she has faced in her efforts to prevent the loss of these wonderful animals.

I had a short conversation with Birute Gladikas as she signed the book after her talk and this only added to my admiration of her, and of the other women who took on the difficult task of observing wild great apes. I urge anyone who wants to understand the issues involved in the conservation of these wonderful cousins of ours to read this book!

I Wanted So Badly To Love It...
Birute Galdikas is known by fewer people than Fossey or Goodall. However, I knew her name well when I purchased this book, as I'm a big fan of primates, great apes in particular. This was the third book exclusively about orangutans I purchased, after "The Red Ape" and "Wizards of the Rainforest." This book was by far, my least favorite of the three. While Red Ape is scientific, bordering on dry, it's very thought provoking and informative. Wizards isn't written for a scientifc crowd, but the stories and pictures give you real insight into organgutan life and personality, and, in my opinion, is one of the best books I've ever read.

This book seemed to try to straddle the two areas, scientific and personal, and poorly at that. Galdikas also delved much further into her personal life than I cared to read about, from her feminist viewpoints, to her childhood, to her marriage and subsequent divorce. This book at times felt more autobiography than a book about orangutans. I respect her as a person and as a scientist, and I don't mean to take anything away from what she's accomplished, because it is truly amazing, but her book was the wrong platform to talk extensively about things other than orangutans.

There are some good pictures. There are a few anecdotal and amusing stories. I will glady keep the book in my ever growing primate library, but unlike some of the other books I have, I doubt this one will leave my shelf very often. If you get it used for $3.00, it's a fine purchase. I'd never pay for a "new" copy of it.

An essential insight
Galdikas provides an essential insight into the lives of orangutans before the current torrent of rainforest destruction. In this day of "Orangutan Island" and other necessary rescue efforts, it is helpful to learn the patterns of truly wild orangutan life before sanctuaries and rehabilitation. I found myself constantly highlighting and making notes in the margin of this book -- which I usually don't do.

Galdikas also gives a passionate and honest narration of the early days of orangutan advocacy, which she helped spur. Like many Westerners, I find the appearance of apathy on the part of Indonesian government utterly appalling. More than any other book that I've read on the subject, she explains the Indonesian culture driving their governmental policies and (in)actions.

This is a "must read" for anyone seriously interested in saving the orangutans. BUT you must follow it up with A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo, a book by Linda Spalding that provides an insight into Galdikas. Spalding's book is essential to understanding why orangutan advocacy today is splintered between groups who lack transparency and, arguably, effectiveness.

Excellent work by Dr. Galdikas
Dr. Galdikas study and care of the orangutans of Borneo is greatly appreciated. My friends and myself enjoyed this book a great deal. Long live Dr. Galdikas and the magnificant orangutans of Borneo! ... Read more