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Look up for the meaning of the following words.

a. anthropologist b. hominids

c. conservationist d. poaching

4Read The Trimates and answer:

What characteristic do the biggest apes have in common?

The Trimates

The Trimates, sometimes called Leakey's Angels, is the name of three women that the anthropologist Louis Leakey sent to study hominids in their natural environments: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey,and Biruté Galdikas studied chimpanzees,gorillas, and orangutans respectively that correspond to the biggest primates in the world. They have no tail and are the closest relatives to humans.

In 1958 Jane Goodall arrived in Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees. Alone with her mother and a cook, in the middle of Gombe's jungle, she began a research project that would last her entire life.The results of her investigation shed light on a chimpanzee's behaviour and social structure, which fascinated the entire world.

Dian Fossey was a primatologist and conservationist known for studying the mountain gorilla from 1966 until 1985.She studied them in the mountain forests of Virunga, between Rwanda and the Congo. She actively supported conservation efforts, and opposed poaching and tourism in wildlife habitats.

Biruté Galdikas pioneered the study of the orangutan, a great ape native to Indonesia. In 1971, she and her husband arrived in Borneo. Before her research, the orangutan was the least understood of the biggest primates. She became a conservationist, because palm oil plantations, gold miners, and poachers are devastating these animals'environment.

Adapted from How the Trimates Revolutionized Primatology. (2016)



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