Alison Jolly was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology.
10 Facts About Alison Jolly
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Alison Jolly wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primarily at the Berenty Reserve, a small private reserve of gallery forest set in the semi-arid spiny desert area in the far south of Madagascar.
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Alison Jolly began studying lemur behavior at Berenty in 1963 and was first to propose female dominance in a primate society.
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Alison Jolly encouraged field studies that contributed to knowledge about Malagasy wildlife and advised many researchers; she briefed Jane Wilson-Howarth and colleagues before their first expedition to Madagascar in 1981.
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Since 1990 Alison Jolly had returned for every birthing season to carry out research assisted by student volunteers.
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Alison Jolly focused on ring-tailed lemur demography, ranging, and especially inter-troop and territorial behavior, in the context of the fivefold difference in population density from front to back of the reserve.
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Alison Jolly wrote numerous articles for consumer magazines and scientific journals.
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The daughter of the artist Alison Mason Kingsbury and the scholar and poet Morris Bishop, in 1963 Alison Jolly married Richard Jolly, the development economist.
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Alison Jolly died at home in Lewes, East Sussex, in February 2014 at the age of 76.
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Alison Jolly is survived by her husband and their four children.