It was in 1992 when Dorothy Cheney, professor of biology, and Robert Seyfarth, professor of psychology, began their long-term study of free-ranging baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. The wife-and-husband team spent the next decade and a half documenting the behavior, communication, and social cognition of these group-living primates. This work culminated in their highly influential 2007 book "Baboon Metaphysics". We spoke with the professors about their perspective on life-long work in the field.

Click link below for full article in OMNIA, Penn Arts & Sciences' online magazine: 
bit.ly/1S4lJxT

Produced by the The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences

Music: "Denzel Sprak" by Blue Dot Sessions


Visit OMNIA online at: http://omnia.sas.upenn.edu