zoologists

Brief text introduces scientists who study animals, including zoologists, entomologists, ornithologists, veterinarians, and zoo nutritionists.

A biography of the English zoologist, for beginning readers, describing her early experiences in Gombe, studying the wild chimpanzees.

A biography of the zoologist focusing on her work with the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania.

Provides information on endangered animals and examines ways that scientists can save them from extinction.

Discusses the life, training, and skills of zoologist Randall S. Wells who studies bottlenose dolphins in Florida and relates information he has learned about dolphins during his research.

Introduces various jobs which involve working with wildlife, including game warden, nature writer, and field biologist.

Presents the career of Belle Benchley whose 25 year career as the director of the San Diego Zoo began with a temporary job as a bookkeeper.

Story of Jane's extraordinary life with the chimps she knows and loves.

Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.

Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland regains consciousness after a plane crash in the African savanna only to discover that he has become one of the baboons his parents are studying.