Women and primates

Although I am not a commemorations friend, not of onomastic, not of "days", today I have felt like rescuing a post of almost three years ago to which, for his subject-matter, it does not weigh the time and which also I liked writing very much. Serve to illustrate the day of the woman and to present to them the cases of five of them joined for his dedication to a difficult task.
We are primates although it hurts someone (more than anything, he envies of the bonobos, I believe). The studies on the big monkeys had his golden age in the latter 30 years, understanding as such that of the pioneers who in the most absolute incomprehension decided to dedicate his life to the task of meeting our cousins looking for information a little beyond the nineteenth-century legends.
To do a sweep for a few species of big monkeys and his investigators is more that interesting, be fixed:

• Gorilla of mountain (Gorilla beringei beringei, a subspecies of the oriental gorilla). Dian Fossey (1932, without occupational training) went to Africa in 1963 and settled definitely in the area Virunga in 1966. Although it was a question of studying the biology and behavior of the gorillas, Fossey was implied personally of form excited in his protection and in the struggle against the poaching, task so dangerous that it finished with his murder in 1985. It got a doctorate in zoology for Cambridge in 1974.

• Common chimpanzee (Bread troglodytes). Jane Goodall (1934, without occupational training) went to Africa in 1960 to study the chimpanzees and remained forever. As Fossey shared his studies with the struggle against the poaching. In 1965 it created the center of studies Gombe Stream and got a doctorate for Cambridge in recognition to his studies on ethology.

• Orangoutang (two species: I set pygmaeus and Set abelii). Biruté Galdikas (1946, anthropologist) began his study of the orangoutangs in 1971 being still a student, settling in the nature reserve of Tanjung Puting, to the south of Borneo. Responsible for the Orangoutang Foundation International. Like the others, it is involved in his conservation up to ends that makes clear in an interview:
• P. - It has been fighting for the conservation for 35 years. How would it describe these years of struggle?
• R.: oh, very, very difficult! When you try to prevent the people from gaining million dollars, violent tactics are used. It is horrible. But I do not complain, I am very glad to be alive and of the protection that the Indonesian Government has given me.

• Baboon (Papio sp). Shirley Strum (1947, anthropologist) studied the baboons in Kenya from 1979, year in which also it was involved in the conservation being at present responsible for Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project.

• Bonobo (Bread paniscus). Amy Parish (19??, anthropologist). Scientific director of Bonobo Conservation Initiative whose project of major importance is a reservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the maintenance of the population of bonobos in the area.

There are certain similarities. They all are women. They all are implied beyond purely scientific. The three first ones, the pioneers, were convinced (it seems that easily) for Louis Leakey, the paleoantropólogo, who was thinking that the study of our cousins was necessary and suitable to understand better our fossil ancestors. Perhaps Leakey had the intuition of which the women were more generous at the time of not dosing the effort and of surrendering to the hard task of years of observation. And, especially, that were more empáticas before his study objects so that they could understand them better. It was not a bad idea.
To end, a photo of Jane Goodall that I love: