Biruté Galdikas
Zoology, Animals, Physiology, Metabolism
World’s foremost authority on orangutans "I’ve always wanted to study the one primate who never left the Garden of Eden. I want to know what we left behind." |
- Birthdate
- May 10, 1946
- Birthplace
- Born in Weisbaden, Germany while her parents were enroute from Lithuania to Canada, but grew up in Toronto
- Residence
- Deep Cove, British Columbia; Los Angeles, California; and Borneo
- Family Members
- Father: Antanas Galdikas
- Mother: Filomena Galdikas
- Spouse: Pak Bohap
- Biruté Galdikas has two younger brothers and a sister, as well as three children.
- Personality
- Patient, determined, loyal
- Favorite Music
- Indonesian native folk songs
- Other Interests
- Children, reading, walking, Indonesian culture
- Title
- Professor of Anthropology
- Office
- Simon Fraser University
- Status
- Working
- Degrees
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- BA (Psychology, Biology), UBC, UCLA, 1966
- MA (Anthropology), UCLA, 1969
- PhD (Anthropology), UCLA, 1978
- Awards
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- Guggenheim Fellow, 1983
- PETA Humanitarian Award 1990
- Eddie Bauer Hero of the Earth 1991
- Sierra Club Chico Mendes Award 1992
- United Nations Global 500 Award 1993
- Tyler Prize (University of Southern California) 1997
- Mentor
Louis Leakey, the world-famous anthropologist who supported Galdikas’s research efforts.
- Last Updated
- December 14, 2010
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