LEADER 03944nam 2200589 450 001 9910797372803321 005 20230807221129.0 010 $a0-271-06770-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271067704 035 $a(CKB)3710000000450476 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001520414 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12557059 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001520414 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11526098 035 $a(PQKB)10469093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224220 035 $a(DE-B1597)584320 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271067704 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313667 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000450476 100 $a20201001d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStorytelling apes $eprimatology narratives past and future /$fMary Sanders Pollock 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cPennsylvania State University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aAnimalibus ;$vVolume 5 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-271-06630-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tOne. First Contacts --$tTwo. The Primatology Romance --$tThree. Tragedy of the Field --$tFour. Morphology of the Tale --$tFive. Primate Characters --$tSix. Primatology and the Carnival World --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades; the mountain gorillas of the Virungas, chronicled first by George Schaller and then later, more obsessively, by Dian Fossey; various species of monkeys (Indian langurs, Kenyan baboons, and Brazilian spider monkeys) studied by Sarah Hrdy, Shirley Strum, Robert Sapolsky, Barbara Smuts, and Karen Strier; and finally the orangutans of the Bornean woodlands, whom Biruté Galdikas has observed passionately. Humans are, after all, storytelling apes. The narrative urge is encoded in our DNA, along with large brains, nimble fingers, and color vision, traits we share with lemurs, monkeys, and apes. In Storytelling Apes, Mary Sanders Pollock traces the development and evolution of primatology field narratives while reflecting upon the development of the discipline and the changing conditions within natural primate habitat. Like almost every other field primatologist who followed her, Jane Goodall recognized the individuality of her study animals: defying formal scientific protocols, she named her chimpanzee subjects instead of numbering them, thereby establishing a trend. For Goodall, Fossey, Sapolsky, and numerous other scientists whose works are discussed in Storytelling Apes, free-living primates became fully realized characters in romances, tragedies, comedies, and never-ending soap operas. With this work, Pollock shows readers with a humanist perspective that science writing can have remarkable literary value, encourages scientists to share their passions with the general public, and inspires the conservation community. 410 0$aAnimalibus ;$vVolume 5. 606 $aPrimatology$xAuthorship 606 $aPrimatology$xFieldwork 606 $aCreative nonfiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPrimatology$xAuthorship. 615 0$aPrimatology$xFieldwork. 615 0$aCreative nonfiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a599.8 700 $aPollock$b Mary Sanders$f1948-$01505028 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797372803321 996 $aStorytelling apes$93734410 997 $aUNINA