- Alison Jolly
Alison Jolly (born 1937) is a primatologist, known for her studies of
lemur biology. She has written several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs inMadagascar , primarily at theBerenty Reserve , a small private reserve of gallery forest set in the semi-arid spiny desert area in the far south ofMadagascar .She holds a BA from Cornell University, and a PhD from Yale University.; she has been a researcher at the New York Zoological Society, Cambridge University, University of Sussex, The Rockefeller University, and Princeton University; she is currently a Visiting Scientist at the
University of Sussex in the UKJolly began studying lemur behaviour at Berenty in 1963. Since 1990 she has returned for every birthing season to carry out research assisted by student volunteers. She has focused on ring-tailed lemur demography, ranging, and especially intertroop and territorial behaviour, in the context of the five-fold difference in population density from front to back of the reserve.
Her scientific books include include "Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study" and "Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution". Her non-technical works include "Madagascar: A World out of Time" and "Lords & Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar". She has also written numerous articles both for consumer magazines and for scientific journals.
In June 2006, a new species of
mouse lemur - "Microcebus jollyae " - was named in her honor.Publications
External links
* [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/profile128053.html Alison Jolly's Homepage] - University of Sussex
* [http://www.winchester.ac.uk/?page=6046 Alison Jolly's Homepage] - University of Winchester
*worldcat id|lccn-n80-19623
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