Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: “Homesick for a World Unknown” with Miriam Horn

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Beginning in the 1950s with Congo's mountain gorillas, field biologist George Schaller revolutionized wildlife science by going to live with Earth’s most feared and revered creatures, from the great cats (tigers, lions, snow leopards, jaguars) to pandas, Tibetan brown bears, Gobi wild camels and many more. Before Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey, he was the first to reveal these primates and predators’ rich emotional and social lives, and to commit his science to ensuring their survival: studying whole ecosystems to understand the animals’ needs, helping to create national parks that together protect an area the size of France, and mentoring generations of biologists on four continents. Instrumental to those breakthroughs were the rigorous and beautiful field notes and journals Schaller kept every day for more than seven decades, preserving an hour-by-hour account of his acute perceptions, perilous adventures, political strategizing and closely guarded interior life. Entrusted to the Yal