ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to present a brief account of the daily life of baboons to serve as a background for the discussion of the social life of early man. The preliminary version of the paper, which was presented at the conference, was based on approximately two hundred hours of observations in the game reserves of Southern Rhodesia. 1 After the conference Washburn went to Kenya Colony and joined DeVore, who had been there for some months. Both continued to study baboons for the following six months, and the present version of this paper is based primarily on the more extensive data collected in Kenya. Full descriptions of baboon behavior will be published elsewhere, and here an attempt has been made to outline only those points that proved to be of greatest interest to the participants of the conference on “The Social Life of Early Man.”
