The videos of Fieldwork were not as easily available in the 1970s when I first studied Cultural Anthropology because VHS and DVDs were not created or invented yet I believe. the first time I used VHS technology (video Tapes) was about 1982 or 3 I believe at a friends house whose business we were running for him while he was on vacation with his son.
So, when I went to Palomar College near San Marcos in California in San Diego County then in the early 1970s I mostly found books sometimes with pictures of fieldwork of different people studying Anthropology. There is a book written in the early 1970s or late 1960s called "Almost Human" about her study of Baboons.
This was my first real foray into Cultures beyond humans of Apes and I found it fascinating how similar in many ways humans are to Baboon cultures on the Savannah in Africa.
Most of the time the baboon tribe (and there are many of these) in Africa lives together in a large tree so they can defend themselves better (especially female baboons and baby baboons).
But, there is one time of year that they have to move the whole tribe across the Savannah to a better place to get food because food runs out anywhere and because they are hunter gatherers like early human beings they have to go where the food is.
Now though I have never been to the savannah of Africa I have been to tropical places like the Chitwan National park in the terai of Nepal on the border of India where Tigers and Rhinos and Pythons and Gar which are a type of skinny mouth alligators live in the river there as well which might be a little similar to a Savannah in Africa where similar kinds of animals are. But, I don't think Baboons live in Nepal on the Indian border there. But, many other kinds of monkeys and apes do. But, mostly they are of a smaller variety but I also saw in Dharamshala both groups of small monkeys and also ones 5 feet tall that were silver and Black which they said don't let your children wander in the forest alone at night because these big guys might eat them.
So, here is this tribe of Baboons wanting to move to get more food. However, often some of the younger males (sort of teenager early 20s if they were humans and single) are lost when the family moves across the Savannah to another location to hunt for more food.
What kills the most Baboon young males is usually lions I believe. (I'm not sure at this point if leopards or Tigers also live in Africa but I don't think Tigers are there because they mostly live in places like India and more in that region of the world.
So, all this baboon tribe moves like a herd with a specific formation. At the center is the King of the Baboons of that tribe. Then surrounding him are the Alpha Females who likely have the most babies. Then the Alpha older males. then the Beta Females then the Beta Males and then finally the Soldier Age young single teenagers and young adult baboons who are the ones likely to get killed by the lions the most.
For me, studying this I was amazed at how similar a strategy for the survival of the tribe this is to how humans survive difficult situations too when you study us historically in all cultural settings worldwide.
So, the jump in some ways between Baboons at least and humans isn't that great a one except that Baboons cannot speak a language like humans can.
Since no apes can talk (even though some can use sign language) I believe the trait of being able to talk actually came from another planet from UFO humanoids not from Earth when they interbred with us here thousands to even millions of years ago.
Because if we ONLY evolved from the apes "Where did the ability to speak come from?"
Only birds have languages like Crows but not apes except for grunts and howls which are not a formal language like we use as humans (thousands of languages and dialects worldwide).
So, where did language come from? It had to come from off planet is the best guess I have at present.
Note: since I put the book so you can see it below I likely will do a part 2 on this here at my website.
Since there are many other movies and books sharing this name (title) after this make sure it is written by
Shirley C. Strum who is the author of the Baboon study in Africa.
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