Once the executive director of Chicago Animal Care & Control, Susan Russell is now in Philadelphia and after a stint at an animal shelter there, she has authored Midnight: Don’t Judge Me ...

One of the world’s foremost orangutan experts, Biruté Mary Galdikas, has received a prestigious global award recognizing her ...

Dr. Jane Goodall for chimpanzees, the late Dr. Dian Fossey took the King Kong out of mountain gorillas, and Dr. Birute Galdikas to learn about orangutans. Steve Dale welcomes Dr. Galdikas to the show, ...

Biruté Mary Galdikas receives highest honour from Explorer's Club SFU Archaeology professor, Biruté Mary Galdikas, has received the Explorers Medal from the Explorers Club for her life's work ...

Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers The world's leading orangutan expert, Birute Mary Galdikas has also rescued injured or orphaned orangutans and returned more than 400 to the wild. Michael P. Turco As ...

Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas to live in the wild with, respectively, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. Long before wildlife conservation became popular, Leakey helped establish national ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, Leakey's paleoanthropologist father, Louis, best known for his research on human origins in Africa, famously chose Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall and Biruté Galdikas to study ...

Morgan Freeman narrates this documentary about two dedicated animal preservationists. Daphne Sheldrick has created an elephant sanctuary in Kenya, while Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has set up an ...

A Beautiful Planet is a breathtaking portrait of Earth from space, providing a unique perspective and increased understanding of our planet and galaxy as never seen before. One of the greatest ...

Image via Depositphotos. The first documented observations of orangutans using natural objects as rain shields occurred in the early 1990s when primatologist Biruté Galdikas recorded several instances ...

Image via Depositphotos. The first documented observations of orangutans using natural objects as rain shields occurred in the early 1990s when primatologist Biruté Galdikas recorded several instances ...