Acknowledgments		9
Part 1. The Adolescent Years: When I First Joined the Troop
1.	The Baboons: The Generations of Israel	13
2.	Zebra Kabobs and a Life of Crime	25
3.	The Revenge of the Liberals	37
4.	The Masai Fundamentalist and My Debut as a Social Worker	47
5.	The Coca-Cola Devil	57
6.	Teaching Old Men About Maps	65
7.	Memories of Blood: The East African Wars	71
Part 2: The Subadult Years
8.	The Baboons: Saul in the Wilderness	95
9.	Samwelly Versus the Elephants	105
10.	The First Masai	117
11.	Zoology and National Security: A Shaggy Hyena Story	121
12.	The Coup	127
13.	Hearing Voices at the Wrong Time	135
14.	Sudan	139
Part 3: Tenuous Adulthood
15.	The Baboons: The Unstable Years	169
16.	0l' Curly Toes and the King of Nubian-Judea	177
17.	The Penguins of Guyana	187
18.	When Baboons Were Falling Out of the Trees	197
19.	The Old White Man	209
20.	The Elevator	213
21.	The Mound Behind the 7-Eleven	219
Part 4: Adulthood
22.	The Baboons: Nick	233
23.	The Raid	243
24.	Ice	249
25.	Joseph	255
26.	The Wonders of Machines in a Land Where They Are Still Novel: The Blind Leading the Blind	259
27.	Who's on First, What's on Second	263
28.	The Last Warriors	269
29.	The Plague	275