Dale DeBakcsy
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 18
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 6
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 25
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
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 10, 2023
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 14, 2023
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 2, 2023
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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Dale DeBakcsy
May 17, 2023
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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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