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Vanessa Woods (born 1977) is an Australian scientist, author and journalist, and is the main Australian/New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel.〔 〕〔 〕 A graduate of the Australian National University with a Master's degree in Science Communication, and an author of children's books,〔 she is best known for her research and work in both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo comparing the different cooperative behaviors of bonobos and common chimpanzees.〔 〕〔 〕 Her mother is of Chinese descent.〔A. Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia. Black Inc., 2008. ISBN 1-86395-191-1.〕 She is the author of ''Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo'' and ''It's Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love, and Lies in the Jungle''. == Career == Working with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, she spent 10 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo studying bonobos, a species of great ape as genetically close to humans as the Common Chimpanzee, in order to make comparisons between the behaviors of humankind and ape.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 She wrote an in-depth report on killer bees encountered during her studies in Costa Rica,〔 〕 and has also spent time studying the yearly cherry blossom experience in Kyoto, Japan.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vanessa Woods」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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