Craig Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

. He is also a Research Associate in the herpetology section of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. He is known for his field studies of the behavior, ecology and conservation biology of chimpanzees, mountain gorillas and other tropical animals, and has published more than 140 scientific papers and 17 books on animal behavior, human evolution and wildlife conservation. He is best known for his field study of the predator–prey ecology of chimpanzees and the animals they hunt in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and for his long term study of the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) is in southwestern Uganda. The park is part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and is situated along the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge o ...

, Uganda. He is also a herpetologist and involved in research and conservation of tortoises and turtles. He is Chair of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specalist Group, and is on the board of the Turtle Conservancy.

Background

Stanford received his BA in anthropology and zoology at

Drew University Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey. Drew has been nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of its wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three scho ...

, his MA in anthropology at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, and his PhD in anthropology at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1990. He taught at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and joined the

in 1992. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Wenner Gren Foundation, Leakey Foundation, among others. He has also received several major teaching and research awards at USC. He lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad.

Selected bibliography

* "The New Chimpanzee: a 21st Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin," 2018 * "Evolution: What Every Teenager Should Know," 2014 * "Planet Without Apes," 2012 * ''The Last Tortoise,'' 2010 * ''Beautiful Minds,'' 2008 (with Maddalena Bearzi) * ''Apes of the Impenetrable Forest,'' 2007 * ''Exploring Biological Anthropology,'' (with John Allen and Susan Antón); 4th edition 2015. * ''Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind'', (with John Allen and Susan Antón); 4th edition 2015 * ''Upright : The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human'', 2003 * ''Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature'', 2001 * ''The Hunting Apes : Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior'', 1999 * ''Meat-Eating and Human Evolution'', 2001 (with co-editor H. Bunn) * ''Chimpanzee and Red Colobus : The Ecology of Predator and Prey'', 1998

Articles

* ''Close encounters: mountain gorillas and chimpanzees share the wealth of Uganda's "impenetrable forest," perhaps offering a window onto the early history of hominids''

External links

Personal Website at USCCalifornia Science Center

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Background

Selected bibliography

Articles

See also

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