Jane goodall dian fossey and birutė galdikas

Jane Goodall, studying the chimpanzees of Gombe Dian Fossey, living among the mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes and Birute Galdikas, chronicling the lives of Bornean orangutans-all three women used their relationships with their study animals as tools of inquiry, and the results astonished the world. Three women in our time have invented a revolutionary way to conduct the science of primate ethology: dedicating their lives to a single species and living as close to the earth and trees as the great apes themselves. Perhaps this names the unease that some people feel : that these women would be transformed, and then leave us to go wild.”

“Daily they made the pilgrimage into the animals’ universe, not only to probe and record, but to enter and join.