Shirley C Strum
Biographic Data
| ID | 106484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley C Strum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley C |
| FAMILY NAME | Strum |
| SIGNATURE | STRUM S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8819-8493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Confessions of a baboon watcher: From inside to outside the paradigm
In this “tale” I summarize the major landmarks of my 50-year career watching wild olive baboons ( Papio anubis ). I review some major discoveries, like baboon hunting and baboon social strategies of competition and defense, that only a creature with a “mind” could manage. My efforts expanded beyond science to include community-based conservation because quite early on these baboons experienced many of the threats of the Anthropocene. My research …
Why Natural History Is Important to (Primate) Science: A Baboon Case Study
Male-female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis): Parenting or mating effort
Baboons and the Origins of Actor-Network Theory: An interview with Shirley Strum about the shared history of primate and science studies
Primate Tourism: A Tool for Conservation
Primate tourism is a growing phenomenon, with increasing pressure coming from several directions: the private sector, governments, and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are working to exclude or severely restrict tourism because of problems that have developed as a result. Indeed, tourism has proven costly to primates due to factors such as disease, stress, social disruption, vulnerability to poachers, and interference w…
Natural Connections: Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Darwin's monkey: Why baboons can't become human
Baboons were used in the past as models for human evolution. I utilize 40 years of data from my long‐term study on baboons in Kenya to suggest that baboons are once again relevant for understanding human evolution, not as a referential model but to reset the starting conditions of the human experiment. The baboon data also offer a critique of widely held ideas about how natural selection might work by looking at real lives in real time. This situ…
The Development of Primate Raiding: Implications for Management and Conservation
Ecosystems and habitats are fast becoming human dominated, which means that more species, including primates, are compelled to exploit new human resources to survive and compete. Primate "pests" pose major management and conservation challenges. I here present the results from a unique opportunity to document how well-known individuals and groups respond to the new opportunity to feed on human foods. Data are from a long-term study of a single po…
Perspectives on de Waal'sPrimates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
Measuring success in primate translocation: A baboon case study
Translocation of primates is still a rare event. The translocation in 1984 of two research groups of wild baboons that had been studied for 12 years prior to translocation and observed for 18 years afterwards offers a comprehensive set of data with which to evaluate success. A comparison with indigenous baboon troops at the release site provides an independent control for assessing performance in the release area. Two success criteria are develop…
Changing Images of Primate Societies
Reconciling aggression and social manipulation as means of competition. 1. Life-History perspective
Weight and age in wild olive baboons
Data on weight, toothwear, cape length, testes size, canine size, and age from wild olive baboons are presented in order to consider the nature of the growth curve, the differences between males and females in a sexually dimorphic species, and the effect of nutrition on growth parameters. Longitudinal and cross‐sectional data on weight and age in three troops that lived under a variety of ecological circumstances showed a good fit to the von Bert…
Nutrition, body condition, activity patterns, and parasitism of free‐ranging troops of olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) in Kenya
Three troops of olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) comprising 134 animals were captured during a translocation program. All three troops (PHG, CRIP, WBY) lived in high‐altitude savannah, but two (CRIP and WBY) also frequented human settlements, where they had access to the garbage pits and vegetable gardens. The translocation offered the opportunity to compare body condition, activity patterns, and parasitism among the troops of animals. A variety of…
Human social origins: Oh please, tell us another story
Use of females by male olive baboons ( Papio anubis )
Wild male olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) used females and infants as agonistic buffers. Male residency status determined whether a male used females or whether they were used against him. The success of the strategy depended on the cooperation of the female and the context of the interaction. Female cooperation correlated with preexisting social affiliation with the male user. Male choice of female or infant buffers represented a compromise betwe…
Baboon cues for eating meat
Variations in fecundity with age and environment in olive baboons ( Papio anubis )
Ten years of reproductive data on a troop of savanna baboons ( Papio anubis ) demonstrated that females had an age‐specific fecundity pattern similar to that of other mammals. Average yearly fecundity has also varied over the period of study and can be explained by variations in food abundance with interspecific competition from ungulate competitors, rather than by female age structure or density‐dependent factors. The implications of age‐specifi…
Agonistic dominance in male baboons: An alternative view
Responsibility for Photoessay Disclaimed
The Development of Primate Raiding: Implications for Management and Conservation
Ecosystems and habitats are fast becoming human dominated, which means that more species, including primates, are compelled to exploit new human resources to survive and compete. Primate "pests" pose major management and conservation challenges. I here present the results from a unique opportunity to document how well-known individuals and groups respond to the new opportunity to feed on human foods. Data are from a long-term study of a single po…
Agonistic dominance in male baboons: An alternative view
Darwin's monkey: Why baboons can't become human
Baboons were used in the past as models for human evolution. I utilize 40 years of data from my long‐term study on baboons in Kenya to suggest that baboons are once again relevant for understanding human evolution, not as a referential model but to reset the starting conditions of the human experiment. The baboon data also offer a critique of widely held ideas about how natural selection might work by looking at real lives in real time. This situ…
Baboon cues for eating meat
Male-female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis): Parenting or mating effort
Why Natural History Is Important to (Primate) Science: A Baboon Case Study
Reconciling aggression and social manipulation as means of competition. 1. Life-History perspective
Changing Images of Primate Societies
Perspectives on de Waal'sPrimates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
Responsibility for Photoessay Disclaimed
Variations in fecundity with age and environment in olive baboons ( Papio anubis )
Ten years of reproductive data on a troop of savanna baboons ( Papio anubis ) demonstrated that females had an age‐specific fecundity pattern similar to that of other mammals. Average yearly fecundity has also varied over the period of study and can be explained by variations in food abundance with interspecific competition from ungulate competitors, rather than by female age structure or density‐dependent factors. The implications of age‐specifi…
Agonistic dominance in male baboons: An alternative view
Use of females by male olive baboons ( Papio anubis )
Wild male olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) used females and infants as agonistic buffers. Male residency status determined whether a male used females or whether they were used against him. The success of the strategy depended on the cooperation of the female and the context of the interaction. Female cooperation correlated with preexisting social affiliation with the male user. Male choice of female or infant buffers represented a compromise betwe…
Baboon cues for eating meat
Human social origins: Oh please, tell us another story
Nutrition, body condition, activity patterns, and parasitism of free‐ranging troops of olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) in Kenya
Three troops of olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) comprising 134 animals were captured during a translocation program. All three troops (PHG, CRIP, WBY) lived in high‐altitude savannah, but two (CRIP and WBY) also frequented human settlements, where they had access to the garbage pits and vegetable gardens. The translocation offered the opportunity to compare body condition, activity patterns, and parasitism among the troops of animals. A variety of…
Weight and age in wild olive baboons
Data on weight, toothwear, cape length, testes size, canine size, and age from wild olive baboons are presented in order to consider the nature of the growth curve, the differences between males and females in a sexually dimorphic species, and the effect of nutrition on growth parameters. Longitudinal and cross‐sectional data on weight and age in three troops that lived under a variety of ecological circumstances showed a good fit to the von Bert…
Reconciling aggression and social manipulation as means of competition. 1. Life-History perspective
Changing Images of Primate Societies
Measuring success in primate translocation: A baboon case study
Translocation of primates is still a rare event. The translocation in 1984 of two research groups of wild baboons that had been studied for 12 years prior to translocation and observed for 18 years afterwards offers a comprehensive set of data with which to evaluate success. A comparison with indigenous baboon troops at the release site provides an independent control for assessing performance in the release area. Two success criteria are develop…
Perspectives on de Waal'sPrimates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
The Development of Primate Raiding: Implications for Management and Conservation
Ecosystems and habitats are fast becoming human dominated, which means that more species, including primates, are compelled to exploit new human resources to survive and compete. Primate "pests" pose major management and conservation challenges. I here present the results from a unique opportunity to document how well-known individuals and groups respond to the new opportunity to feed on human foods. Data are from a long-term study of a single po…
Darwin's monkey: Why baboons can't become human
Baboons were used in the past as models for human evolution. I utilize 40 years of data from my long‐term study on baboons in Kenya to suggest that baboons are once again relevant for understanding human evolution, not as a referential model but to reset the starting conditions of the human experiment. The baboon data also offer a critique of widely held ideas about how natural selection might work by looking at real lives in real time. This situ…
Natural Connections: Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Primate Tourism: A Tool for Conservation
Primate tourism is a growing phenomenon, with increasing pressure coming from several directions: the private sector, governments, and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are working to exclude or severely restrict tourism because of problems that have developed as a result. Indeed, tourism has proven costly to primates due to factors such as disease, stress, social disruption, vulnerability to poachers, and interference w…
Baboons and the Origins of Actor-Network Theory: An interview with Shirley Strum about the shared history of primate and science studies
Why Natural History Is Important to (Primate) Science: A Baboon Case Study
Male-female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis): Parenting or mating effort
Confessions of a baboon watcher: From inside to outside the paradigm
In this “tale” I summarize the major landmarks of my 50-year career watching wild olive baboons ( Papio anubis ). I review some major discoveries, like baboon hunting and baboon social strategies of competition and defense, that only a creature with a “mind” could manage. My efforts expanded beyond science to include community-based conservation because quite early on these baboons experienced many of the threats of the Anthropocene. My research …
Biology (14 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Baboon (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Papio anubis (7 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 works) · Zoology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Primate (6 works)