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Hace 2 días · 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. While some communities hunted them for food and decoration, others placed taboos on such ...
Hace 5 días · Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and to our own understanding of ...
Hace 5 días · As one of the three most prominent researchers on primates in the world, Goodall is known as a ‘Trimate’, along with Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas, who studied gorillas and orangutans respectively. All three women had been selected by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study hominids in their natural environments.
Hace 4 días · Dian Fossey, Birutė Galdikas, and Jane Goodall, also known as “the Trimates” or “Leakey’s Angels,” were chosen by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey to study hominoids in the wild. Fossey embraced her role as a primatologist and founded the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda to study and protect mountain gorillas.
Hace 4 días · On May 28, 1892, Muir joined a small group of fellow Californians to create what is now the largest grassroots environmental organizations in the world—the Sierra Club. Muir had pondered starting an organization of like-minded wilderness lovers for some time, encouraged by many of his friends. But he resisted, guided by his firm avoidance of ...
Hace 3 días · Ann Richards was only the second woman to serve as Governor of Texas (1991-1995). The first female Governor was Miriam A. Ferguson, from 1925 to 1935. One of my favorite quotes from her was: "The law in Texas was that idiots, imbeciles, the insane and women could not vote. And, less than one generation later, I was the governor of Texas."
Hace 4 días · Garsių Lietuvos dvynių mama – audėja, tautodailininkė Birutė Andrijauskienė, tėtis – kapelos „Sadūnai“ muzikantas, grupės „Čir vir vyrai“ vadovas, etnografas Gintaras Andrijauskas. Gausios folklorininkų dinastijos tėviškė – ežeringas Zarasų kraštas.
