Birute Galdikas

About Birute Galdikas

For nearly four decades, he worked closely with orangutans on Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat.

Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Birutė Mary Galdikas, OC, is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author. She is a professor at Simon Fraser University. In the field of primatology, Galdikas is recognized as a leading authority on orangutans. Prior to her field study of orangutans, scientists knew little about the species.

Fields	Primatology, anthropology, ethology
Influences	Louis Leakey
Born	Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas, May 10, 1946, Wiesbaden, Germany
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Known for	Study of orangutans, conservation
Thesis	Orangutan adaptation at Tanjung Puting Reserve, Central Borneo (1978)
Notable awards	Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1997)
Institutions	Simon Fraser University

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Trivia

She became the world's foremost authority on orangutans.

Birute Galdikas before fame

UCLA awarded her master's and doctorate degrees in anthropology.

Achievement of Birute Galdikas

She rose to prominence as the world's foremost expert on orangutans.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Birute Galdikas family life

In 1976, she gave birth to a boy named Binte.

Associations of Birute Galdikas

She starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the feature documentary Born to be Wild 3D.

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