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Happy 50th Anniversary Jane Goodall Institute

4 The Love Of Animals

The purpose of her trip was to study the behavior of the resident chimpanzees in order to better understand humans. What she learned then added to our understanding of what means to be human. Tags: people helping animals. Her work has produceded some amazing information. Hundreds of lecture tours and conferences.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. As a group we tagged and weighed more than 500 terns, terns that can be recaptured in the future to teach us humans more about the dynamics of the colony. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. White-backed and Hooded occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, but Rueppell’s is restricted to East and West Africa.