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Semi-Social: Biruté Galdikas and the Complicated Simplicity of the Bornean Orangutan.

Dale DeBakcsy

May 10

Semi-Social: Biruté Galdikas and the Complicated Simplicity of the Bornean Orangutan.

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...

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Jeanne Altmann, Baboon Moms, and the Justice League of Primatology.

Dale DeBakcsy

Mar 18

Animal Behavior

Jeanne Altmann, Baboon Moms, and the Justice League of Primatology.

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

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The Professor and the Frogs: The Ecology and Herpetology of Margaret Stewart.

Dale DeBakcsy

Feb 6

Biology

The Professor and the Frogs: The Ecology and Herpetology of Margaret Stewart.

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

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Anne Innis Dagg, Giraffe, and the Winding Road of the Citizen Scientist.

Dale DeBakcsy

Jan 25

Animal Behavior

Anne Innis Dagg, Giraffe, and the Winding Road of the Citizen Scientist.

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...

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Dale DeBakcsy

Jan 16

Animal Behavior

The Tragedy of Dian Fossey

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: ...

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A Life in Service to the Birds: America’s Pioneering Woman Ornithologist, Florence Merriam Bailey

Dale DeBakcsy

Sep 10, 2023

Biology

A Life in Service to the Birds: America’s Pioneering Woman Ornithologist, Florence Merriam Bailey

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...

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Adventures in Chimpland: The Revolutionary Primatology of Jane Goodall.

Dale DeBakcsy

Jun 14, 2023

Animal Behavior

Adventures in Chimpland: The Revolutionary Primatology of Jane Goodall.

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

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Eugenie “The Shark Lady” Clark and the Grim Truths of Early Marine Biology.

Dale DeBakcsy

Jun 2, 2023

Biology

Eugenie “The Shark Lady” Clark and the Grim Truths of Early Marine Biology.

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

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Belle Benchley and the Creation of the Modern Zoo

Dale DeBakcsy

May 17, 2023

Animal Behavior

Belle Benchley and the Creation of the Modern Zoo

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

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The Life Stories of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era.

Dale DeBakcsy

Apr 27, 2023

Biology

The Life Stories of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era.

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...

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Return to Nature: Stella Brewer and the Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation.

Dale DeBakcsy

Apr 27, 2023

Animal Behavior

Return to Nature: Stella Brewer and the Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation.

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

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