Hope for animals and their world : how endangered species are being rescued from the brink
Item Description: |
Includes index. |
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Physical Description: |
xxiv, 392 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780446581776 (regular edition) 0446581771 (regular edition) 9780446559942 (large print edition) 0446559946 (large print edition) |
Author Notes: |
Following Leakey's suggestion that a field study of some of the higher primates would be a major contribution to the understanding of animal behavior, she began studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1960. Although she had no undergraduate degree, Goodall earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965, based on her first five years of research at the Gombe Center. After more than 20 years of extensive study and direct contact with wild chimpanzees in their natural habitat, Goodall continues to research, teach, and write about primate behavior today. (Bowker Author Biography) |