Some of his animal companions had different ideas about "romance." DeVore is fond of telling his B-29 class about a particularly affectionate orangutan.
Not that it's been all lighthearted--DeVore says he has had less than friendly encounters with elephants and lions. He has even been struck by lightening.
But what scares DeVore most are tropical diseases.
"The microbes are far more dangerous," he says. "I had some colleagues die recently who just went back to the tropics one too many times."
Yet for all his work deep in Africa, DeVore met his match in Martha's Vineyard. USA. On a trip there in 1984, he contracted tularemia, an extremely rare disease found in ticks and rabbits, and Lyme disease.
With DeVore, each new class brings a new story.
Andy J. Marshall, head teaching fellow for Human Behavioral Biology, says the stories that DeVore tells in class represents only a fraction of his fascinating experiences.
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