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9 de set. de 2024 · Dr Biruté Galdikas has devoted her life to studying orangutans. She began living with the orangutans in Borneo in 1971. Now in her 70s, Dr. Galdikas has conducted the longest reigning study of a single species by any single scientist.
Há 6 dias · Biruté Mary Galdikas was only 25 years old when she traveled to the rainforests of Borneo to study orangutans in the wild. Like her colleagues, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she faced skepticism about whether a woman could do the job — and her research prompted a fierce determination to protect these beautiful a.
Há 5 dias · Orangutan researcher Birutė Galdikas presenting her book about the apes. Orangutans were known to the native people of Sumatra and Borneo for millennia. The apes are known as maias in Sarawak and mawas in other parts of Borneo and in Sumatra. [11] While some communities hunted them for food and decoration, others placed taboos on such practices.
14 de set. de 2024 · Birutė Galdikas – A key figure in the study of orangutans, Galdikas has spent decades observing these primates in Borneo. Her work highlights their complex social structures and contributes to ongoing conservation efforts.
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10 de set. de 2024 · Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for her work with mountain gorilla groups in Rwanda mountain forests from 1966 until her murder in 1985. Like Jane Goodall, Fossey was a student of Louis Leakey.
