jane goodall dian fossey and birutė galdikas

Overall, the graphic-novel format makes what could be a dry subject more appealing for young people. The illustrations are lively and cartoonish, using a natural palette of browns and greens to tell the story. While this might not be the best resource for homework assignments, it is an enjoyable and informative read. In the afterword, Ottaviani explains how he and Wicks wanted to create a story rather than a textbook, and so they combined the facts with some imaginative fictionalizing. The book jumps back and forth among the different narrators, so that each of the women and even Leakey are sharing their views about their work and about one another.

Over a period of several years, he recruited and inspired these women to study chimpanzees, mountain gorillas, and orangutans. They would never have met without the guidance of Louis Leakey, an anthropologist who believed that women were better at studying animals in their native environment because they were more patient and perceptive than men. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery explores the science, wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.This engaging graphic novel (part story, part group biography) introduces readers to three unique women whose different personalities and lives intersected because of their love of primates. Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good science. All three began their work as protegees of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars-and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild.

Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda and Birut# Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins.

Reprint of the now out-of-print first edition without changes.

Jane goodall dian fossey and birutė galdikas