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24 - Reflections on ‘Babooning’

from Part II - Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2020

By
Russell Hill
Edited by
Tim Burt  and
Des Thompson
Tim Burt
Affiliation:
Durham University
Des Thompson
Affiliation:
Scottish Natural Heritage
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I still look back on the fieldwork I undertook for my PhD as one of the most amazing periods of my life and an opportunity I was very fortunate to experience. Arriving in late 1996, I spent 14 months living on De Hoop Nature Reserve in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. South Africa was emerging from the shadow of the apartheid era at that time and, although its legacy was still clearly apparent, I fell in love with the country and its people. While the location of my current field site is now in the opposite corner of the country, my early fieldwork experiences ensured my research has remained situated in the Rainbow Nation ever since.

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Curious about Nature
A Passion for Fieldwork
 , pp. 218 - 222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Hill, R. A. (2005). Day length seasonality and the thermal environment. In Primate Seasonality: Implications for Human Evolution, eds. Brockman, D. K and van Schaik, C. P.. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 197–213.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hill, R. A. (2006). Thermal constraints on activity scheduling and habitat choice in baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129, 242–249; DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20264.Google Scholar
Hill, R. A., Barrett, L., Gaynor, D., et al. (2003). Day length, latitude and behavioural (in)flexibility in baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 53, 278–286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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