Transcript: The Secret Life Of Baboons

DAVE DAVIES
NPR Fresh Air
12-05-2008
The Secret Life Of Baboons

Host: DAVE DAVIES
Time 12:00-1:00 PM


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DAVE DAVIES, host:

This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies, senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, filling in for Terry Gross. Our guests on today's show want to know what baboons have to say each to other and what's going in their minds as they scream, grunt, and wahoo. They recorded vocalizations of wild baboons and analyzed what they communicate. That's the subject of their book "Baboon Metaphysics," which is now out in paperback. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth are a husband and wife team who've studied baboons in Botswana since 1992. They both teach at the University ...

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