William M. Fields

William M. Fields
Born1948
Atlanta, Georgia
Websitehttp://www.greatapetrust.org/

William M. Fields (born 1949), also known by the lexigram , is an American qualitative investigator studying language, culture, and tools in non-human primates. He is best known for his collaboration with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh beginning in 1997 at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. There he co-reared Nyota , a baby bonobo, with Panbanisha , Kanzi and Savage-Rumbaugh .[1] Fields and Savage-Rumbaugh are the only scientists in the world carrying out language research with bonobos.[2]

  1. ^ Living with Nyota the Bonobo, NPR, July 8, 2006. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
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