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Into Africa

Into Africa( )
Author: Packer, Craig
ISBN:978-0-226-64430-1
Publication Date:Nov 1996
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $34.00
Book Description:

Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of fifty-two days in the fall of 1991. But this is more than a tour of magnificent animals in an exotic, faraway place. A field biologist since 1972, Packer began his work studying primates at Gombe and then the lions of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater with his wife and colleague Anne Pusey. Here, he introduces us to the real world of fieldwork--initiating assistants to lion research in the Serengeti, helping a doctoral student...
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Book Details
Pages:292
Detailed Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals
Travel / Africa / East / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.601 x 0.796 x 0.082 Inches
Book Weight:0.876 Pounds
Author Biography
Packer, Craig (Author)
Craig Packer is a Distinguished McNight University Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. He attended the University of Sussex in England, where he earned his Ph.D.

Packer has served as director of the National Science Foundation's Serengeti Lion Project.

Packer's early expertise as a student researcher with Jane Goodall's chimpanzees, as well as his own studies of lions in the Serengeti prepared him for the writing of his novel, Into Africa, as well as several articles included in Scientific American, American Naturalist, and Science.

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