ISBN: 9781155640594 / 1155640594 Primatologists: Jane Goodall, Robert Yerkes, Dian Fossey, Donna Haraway, Frans de Waal, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Linda Marie Fedigan by: Books Llc

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jane Goodall, Robert Yerkes, Dian Fossey, Donna Haraway, Frans de Waal, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Linda Marie Fedigan, Birut Galdikas, Ursula Cowgill, Marc Van Roosmalen, Leakey's Angels, John Napier, Vanessa... Show More

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jane Goodall, Robert Yerkes, Dian Fossey, Donna Haraway, Frans de Waal, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Linda Marie Fedigan, Birut Galdikas, Ursula Cowgill, Marc Van Roosmalen, Leakey's Angels, John Napier, Vanessa Woods, Jan Moor-Jankowski, Robin Dunbar, Dawn Prince-Hughes, Colin Groves, Francine Neago, Yves Rumpler, Richard Wrangham, Craig Stanford, Henry Mchenry, Alejandro Estrada, Agustin Fuentes, Clarence Ray Carpenter, Jordi Sabater Pi, Daris Swindler, Helder Queiroz, Carel Van Schaik, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Anne Zeller, Geoffrey Bourne, Barbara Smuts, Thomas Defler, Meredith Small, Alison Jolly, Patricia Wright, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Christophe Boesch, Zena Tooze, Carole C. Noon, Eugene Cussons, Adolf Bernard Meyer, Paul Garber, Angela Meder, Frances J. White, Kinji Imanishi, Junichiro Itani, Masao Kawai. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dian Fossey (pronounced , January 16, 1932 December 26, 1985) was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous anthropologist Louis Leakey. She was murdered in 1985, by unknown assailants; the case remains open. Along with Jane Goodall and Birut Galdikas, she was part of the so called Leakey's Angels, a group of three prominent researchers on primates (Fossey on Gorillas; Goodall on Chimpanzees; and Galdikas on Orangutans) sent by archaeologist Louis Leakey to study these animals in their natural environments. On September 24, 1967, Fossey founded the Karisoke Research Center, a remote rainforest camp nestled in Ruhengeri province. Kari for the first four letters of Mt. Karisimbi that overlooked her camp from the south, and soke for the last four letters of Mt. Visoke...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=168280 Show Less