1. George Beals Schaller was born on 26 May 1933 and is an American mammalogist, biologist, conservationist and author.
22 Facts About George Schaller
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George Schaller is vice president of Panthera Corporation and serves as chairman of their Cat Advisory Council.
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George Schaller is a senior conservationist at the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
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From 1963 to 1966, George Schaller served as research associate for the Johns Hopkins University pathobiology department, and from 1966 to 1972, served as the Rockefeller University's and New York Zoological Society's research associate in research and animal behavior as part of the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior.
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George Schaller then served as director of the New York Zoological Society's International Conservation Program from 1979 to 1988.
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In 1959, when George Schaller was only 26, he traveled to Central Africa to study and live with the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes.
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The American zoologist Dian Fossey, with assistance from the National Geographic Society and Louis Leakey, followed George Schaller's ground-breaking field research on mountain gorillas in the Virungas.
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George Schaller appeared as himself on the December 6,1965 episode of the CBS gameshow To Tell the Truth.
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George Schaller is one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in Nepal between 1950 and 1978.
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In 1980, as part of a cooperative project between the World Wildlife Fund and China, George Schaller carried out field research on the giant panda in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province.
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George Schaller was the first Westerner to do so since before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and he co-authored the resulting monograph, The Giant Pandas of Wolong.
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George Schaller sought to refute the notion that the panda population was declining due to natural bamboo die-offs.
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George Schaller found evidence that pandas were originally carnivores, but underwent an evolutionary change to accommodate a diet of bamboo, which is difficult to digest, reducing competition with other animals for food.
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In 1993, George Schaller wrote The Last Panda, a meditation not only on the fate of the species but on the politics of conservation more broadly.
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Later that year, George Schaller rediscovered the Vietnamese warty pig, once thought extinct.
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In 2003, George Schaller returned to Chang Tang, and found the wildlife in the area had rebounded since his first trip to the region.
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In 2007, George Schaller worked with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and China to develop a new "Peace Park", that would protect 20,000 miles of habitat for the largest wild sheep species, the Marco Polo sheep.
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George Schaller is one of a few prominent scientists who argue that Bigfoot reports are worthy of serious study.
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George Schaller has written hundreds of magazine articles, and dozens of books and scientific articles about tigers, jaguars, cheetahs and leopards, as well as wild sheep and goats, rhinoceroses, and flamingos.
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George Schaller has been awarded the International Cosmos Prize, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and he was the first recipient of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Beebe Fellowship.
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In 1988, George Schaller received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Kay George Schaller passed on March 7,2023 at the age of 93.