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Birute Galdikas Books: •Who’s Who, 1999 •Kevels, Bettyann. Watching the Wild Apes 1976 •Spalding, Linda. A Dark Place in the Jungle: Scientists, Orangutans, and human Nature, 1999 • A to Z of Women Scientists, 1996 monkey1.jpg Birute and Melcolm DrGaldik and Malcolm.jpg Reasons or Needs: •She wanted to research orangutans because little was known about them •The curiosity of what orangutans were like made her even more determined to research them •Still living today Environmental Issue/ cause: •Apes are the closest biological animal to humans •Birute Galdikas particularly liked the orangutans Birth •Was born in Wiesbaden, west Germany •On may 10th, 1946 to Anatas and Filomena Galdikas Education: •In 1965 Birute went to southern California and went to UCLA •UCLA means University of California at Los Angeles monkey5.jpg Challenges: •Her husband didn’t want to stay but Galdikas wanted to stay then decided to move •When they made their Journey to Tan Jung they floated their canoes to Sikunir Kanan River then they started building their new home How old when married: •Married in 1969 •Marriage ended in 1979, when her husband left the jungle Alanna and Corey