Box 53
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Gorilla project, 1960-09 - 1960-12
File — Box: 53, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries concerns NYZS’s wildlife conservation activities in Africa, which were greatly expanded under Osborn’s leadership. In the late 1950s, the Society began sponsoring field research in Africa; among the most significant of this research were the studies into the ecology and behavior of mountain gorillas carried out by John Emlen and George Schaller in 1959 and continued by Schaller the following year. Others conducting NYZS-sponsored field research in Africa during Osborn’s...
Dates:
1960-09 - 1960-12