Dawn Starin

Dawn Starin is an anthropologist who has spent decades researching human and nonhuman primates in Africa and Asia. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, The Humanist, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, among other publications.

In the Forest of the Colobus

At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration

By Dawn Starin | Monday December 4, 2023

In the Forest of the Colobus

By Dawn Starin | Monday December 4, 2023

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