" It had taken all my life to understand what that means: baboons, elephants and people belong with the ones they truly know. We need more than strangers around us. Mark and I had studied the significance of social sytems of other species for decades, but in doing so, we had left our own families. And what we learned was that it is not so much that the troop is incomplete without some of its baboons or human beings, but that the individual baboons or human beings are incomplete without their troop.[...] Because most people are as scattered as desert lions, one can find plenty of strays in the dunes; all you need is a net to bring them in. To be complete we need Nature and our troops, but both are slipping away beyond our reach. We must save what wilderness we can because it was our first home, and without it we will never fully understand who we are. [...]we must put our troops and our families back together again. Like Kalahari lions at the end of drought, we must form a new pride. "
Deliah Owens, Secrets of the Savannah
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