I few years ago I was getting really into nature books. I read a book about ants by a Harvard professor of entomology who was regarded as the world’s top ant researcher. I also read one on star nosed moles by a scientist who had been studying them their whole lives. I loved both books and I tried to keep the streak going. I got a book on octopus and a book on cows and realized they were just books by normal authors trying to write on the topic instead of a scientists why have spent their lives researching. Does anybody know of more books like that? Preferably animal/nature related.
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Jane Goodall is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years’ studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. She has written many books on that topic. And on gorillas you have: Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey.
There’s also Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation, very accessible and fascinating.