In Memory of Dr. Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas
Biruté Galdikas did not simply study orangutans; she dedicated her life to revealing their behavior and ecology, protecting their future, and ensuring they would never again be forgotten.
Grantee Spotlight: Eva Stela Nomenjanahary
Eva Stela Nomenjanahary grew up in Madagascar, one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth. Now a PhD student, she's recording rare nocturnal lemur calls to understand how they change as habitat becomes fragmented.
Grantee Spotlight: Sims Patton
Sims Patton didn't set out to become a primatologist. She started college aiming for veterinary school, but an internship at Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens, where she worked with a gorilla who had been raised as a pet, changed her direction entirely.
A day in the field at Gombe
Follow Leakey Foundation grantees Sims Patton and Abigail McClain through a day in the field as they study chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
Lost howlers of the Tatacoa
A new study of a pair of 13-million-year-old fossil jaws sheds new light on how howler monkeys became one of South America’s most successful primates.