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.
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Here's the game: I give you clues and you try to guess what more or less famous person I'm talking about. The clues are written in the first person, but they weren't really written by that person, they were written by me. A sample clue would be: I was the first pilot to make a successful solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic "the hard way," i.e. from East to West. When you are ready to see the answer, click on "comments" and the answer will appear in a new window.
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The answers are 1- Birute Galdikas 2- Dian Fossey and 3- Jane Goodall
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