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There is something instantly mesmerizing about looking into the face of a raptor, a wordless communication between two species which are...

By 1971, when a 24 year old anthropology student by the name of Biruté Galdikas set foot in the wilds of Borneo to study the largely...

It is a long standing saying* that the pantheon of primatology is essentially the Justice League of America, with Jane Goodall as...

Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale.  Frogs are going extinct, according to the most...

Before Jane and Dian, Biruté and Jeanne, there was Anne. In 1957 Anne Innis (b. 1933) became the first woman to attempt a solo animal...

There are people to whom it is given to wait alone on humanity's dark edge and stand against all the worst of our collective impulses: ...

In the late eighteenth century, it would have been not at all unusual to run into a woman on the streets of New York wearing upon her...

After a life spent studying our closest relatives, and arguing passionately for their protection and that of the wider planet of which...

To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information...

Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open air facilities, with features...

When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your...

Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up...