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Well, she's no longer around, but Dian Fossey is a zoologist I've always respected. This website has a lot of information about her work with Mountain Gorillas, as well as the fund that was set up to fund protection of these animals.

http://www.gorillafund.org/

2006-08-21 16:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by gshprd918 4 · 0 1

Here are a few from wikipedia. Most of them have links. I do like Gerald Durrell and his many books including the New Noah. I also grew up with him on tv.

Notable zoologists
Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
Aristotle
Bonnaterre, Pierre-Joseph
Archie Carr, (June 16, 1909-May 21, 1987) (Herpetology), esp. sea turtles
Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
Richard Owen (proposed archetypes for major groups of organisms)
Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative morphology)
Richard Dawkins (ethology)
Dian Fossey (primatology)
Arthur David Hasler, (January 5, 1908-March 23, 2001) (limnology, ichthyology, salmon homing)
Victor Hensen, (February 10, 1835-April 5, 1924) (planktology)
Libbie Hyman (invertebrate zoology)
William Kirby (father of entomology)
Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
David W. Macdonald (wild mammals)
Ernst Mayr (1905-2005), influential evolutionary biologist, one of the founders of the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary theory in the 1940s.
Desmond Morris (ethology)
Ron Nowak (wild mammals)
Roger Tory Peterson (ornithology)
Thomas Say (entomology)
Ernest P. Walker (wild mammals)
E. O Wilson, b. 1929, (entomology, founder of sociobiology)
Jakob van Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)

2006-08-21 14:45:54 · answer #2 · answered by David Y 4 · 1 0

Here you go. Take your pick.

2006-08-21 13:20:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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