Water Hole Waiting by Jane Kurtz and Christopher Kurtz. Illustrated by Lee Christiansen. (2002) Preschool Up. unp (32 pages.) Greenwillow/ HarperCollins. ISBN: 0-06-029851-0. $15.89	Vervet Monkeys - Research Water Hole Waiting by Jane Kurtz and Christopher Kurtz Illustrated by Lee Christiansen A Note from Jane about the Research: When my editor at Greenwillow decided she wanted to publish Water Hole Waiting, she told us that she was fascinated with the nonfiction part of the book--the fact that the story does show how animals behave on the savanna. She asked us what specific kind of monkey the young monkey in the story would be. She also asked if it were possible for monkeys on the savanna during dry season to go all day without a drink. We very quickly knew that the monkeys would be vervet monkeys, so Chris and I looked at many different web pages to learn more about vervet behavior--including these: <>Interesting vervet faces and expressions<> <> Read Vervet monkeys at the water hole Oakland Zoo (vervet monkeys Harvard - Vervet monkeys Thinkquiest site about vervet monkeys Natualia Organization South African Venues - Vervet Monkeys I also read a big, thick book: How Monkeys See the World* to learn more about the way vervet monkeys give danger signals to each other, and had e-mail conversations with Dr. Lynne A. Isbell of the University of California at Davis, who studies vervet monkeys in Kenya. *(Cheney, Dorothy L. How Monkeys See the World : Inside the Mind of Another Species by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990. 377 pages) More Research - Fever Trees
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