Dawn Starin
Anthropologist Dawn Starin has spent decades researching and writing about primates – human and nonhuman. Her articles have appeared in both peer-reviewed journals and in popular publications and websites as varied as Al Jazeera, American Scholar, Ecologist, Geographical, the Humanist, Natural History, New York Times, Prospect, Scientific American and the Telegraph amongst others.
Posts by Dawn Starin
Totally Sated with Teranga in a West African Village
I spent many years studying the behavior of the endangered western red colobus monkeys in The Gambia, the smallest country on the African mainland.... Read More
Elevator Protest: The Wheels of Justice Grind Too Slowly for These New Yorkers
On a brisk, blue-sky morning in the autumn of 2019, outside the New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan and across the street... Read More
Book Review: Tales from Gombe
Tales from Gombe is an intimately illustrated coffee table book created by wildlife photographers Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers. It details the simian soap... Read More
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
As handsome, beloved Amos lay dying, Daisy did her best to make him comfortable. Daisy seemed to grasp Amos’s situation and, being part of... Read More
Colobus Conundrum
No matter how deep I am in the forest, the sounds of humanity seep through, reminding me that the Abuko Nature Reserve in The... Read More