Baboon tales / Bullfrog Films presents ; director, Gillian Darling Kovanic ; narration written by Amanda McConnell and Bruce Martin ; produced by Tamarin Productions Inc. in association with the Discovery Channel, USA.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Kovanic, Gillian Darling, film director.

McConnell, Amanda, screenwriter.

Martin, Bruce, screenwriter.

Close, Glenn, 1947- narrator.

Tamarin Productions Inc.

Discovery Channel (Firm)

Bullfrog Films.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olive baboon--Behavior--Kenya.

Olive baboon.

Olive baboon--Behavior.

Social behavior in animals.

Infants.

Kenya.

Olive baboon--Infancy--Kenya.

Social behavior in animals--Kenya.

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Genre:

Feature films.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2015]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

The story of the first rough and tumble year in the life of 5 olive baboon infants (Papio anubis) where becoming successful depends upon personality, rank, luck, and the help of fellow troop members. Behaviors shown include parenting, foraging, climbing rocks and trees, use of infant by adult males to defuse aggression, inter-troop fighting, mother dealing with dead infant, play, sleeping, grooming.

Participant:

Narrator: Glenn Close.

Credits:

Cinematographer, Rudolf Kovanic ; editor, Shelly Hamer ; scientific advisor, Shirley Strum.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Tamarin Productions Inc., c1998.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 4, 2015).

Publisher Number:

bf-baboon Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.