Galdikas until I met her at Simon Fraser,” she remembers. “Growing up, I saw Gorillas in the Mist, so I knew about Dian Fossey,” Linsky says, “and Jane Goodall is just, like, a household name. Linsky, Gladikas’s current mentee, hadn’t heard of the renowned primatologist until a friend recommended taking one of her courses. Ruth Linsky, one young scientist featured in the film, is an Alberta native who studied biology, ecology and evolution at Simon Fraser University in B.C., where Galdikas teaches. She Walks with Apes, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, tells the story of the Trimates and the next generation of women who were inspired to live with the great apes. That honour goes to Biruté Galdikas, a Canadian scientist, conservationist and educator who is surprisingly less known than her fellow Trimates, Goodall and Fossey. But neither of these women can be credited with operating the longest continuous study by one principal investigator of any wild mammal in the world. With the mention of primates and those who have dedicated their lives to the study of them, people often think of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.
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