Primatologists

1- I am the world's leading authority on orangutans, and have spent over thirty years in Borneo observing them in the wild. I am a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and 'Professor Extraordinaire' at Indonesia's Universitas Nasional in Jakarta. I am also president of the Orangutan Foundation International in Los Angeles, California.
As for my personal life, after many years in the field, I divorced my spouse and married a scantily-clad native.

2- I spent many years studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda. When I went to Africa for the first time, I had my appendix removed preemptively so that I wouldn't suffer appendicitis while in the jungle. I was murdered in 1985, probably by poachers, but my murder remains unsolved. My story was told in the dramatic 1988 Movie Gorillas in the Mist.

3- I have spent 45 years studying chimpanzees. One of my major contributions to the field of primatology was the discovery of tool-making in chimpanzees. Though many animals had been observed using "tools", previously, only humans were thought to make tools, and tool-making was considered the defining difference between humans and other animals. This discovery convinced several scientists to reconsider their definition of being human.