Real People Don't Own Monkeys

A veterinary instructor at Washington State Veterinary Hospital shares 21 amusing/dramatic/touching tales from her practice on treating pet owners as well as their menagerie of animals. Kiklevich's husband is a zoology professor at the U. of Idaho. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

J. Veronika Kiklevich is a clinical instructor at Washington State University Veterinary Hospital, where she practices clinical medicine and teaches veterinary students. When she moved to Massachusetts with her husband in 1986, she took a position at an animal clinic in a suburb of Boston. She also dispensed veterinary advice on her cable television show called, For Pet’s Sakes, which was broadcast throughout suburban Boston.

Steven N. Austad is a Professor of Zoology at the University of Idaho where he studies animal behavior and the biology of aging. After receiving his Ph.D. in animal behavior from Purdue University and conducting field research in the U.S., Europe, and South America, he became a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He has continued his field work and has published more than 50 scientific papers while at the same time winning several national research awards. He has written for such magazines as Natural History, International Wildlife, National Wildlife, and Scientific American. He has been the subject of personal profiles in Men’s Journal and Smithsonian and he is also a science advisor to National Public Radio.