Experts by Specialty: Biologist
St. John Anderson
Biologist St. John (Jo) Anderson moved to East Africa in 1995 shortly after graduating from Oxford University... More »
Steve Boyes
Dr. Steve Boyes has been leading expeditions into Africa's wild places for more than ten years... More »
Bill Branch
Bill Branch has been a wildlife biologist at the Port Elizabeth Museum in South Africa since 1979 and has undertaken fieldwork from Ethiopia to South Africa and Senegal to Madagascar. Bill is also a general naturalist and keen birder... More »
David Bygott
Biologist and artist David Bygott first came to Tanzania in 1969 to work on Jane Goodall's National Geographic-funded team studying wild chimpanzees. David spent four years as a lion biologist for the Serengeti Lion Project, researching lion behavior in northern Tanzania... More »
Mireya Mayor
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mireya Mayor is a primatologist and conservationist reporting on wildlife issues for more than a decade. As a correspondent on National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorer television series, she has gone underwater with six-foot-long Humboldt squids, tracked gorillas in Central Africa, and worked with leopards in Namibia... More »
Jeremy Schmidt
Few people know Yellowstone country better than wildlife biologist Jeremy Schmidt. Jeremy has spent more than 30 years in the area, working as a winter keeper, park ranger, naturalist, photographer, and author... More »
Derek Solomon
Derek Solomon has been leading special interest safaris in southern Africa for more than 15 years. Originally based in Harare, Zimbabwe, he has led safaris to destinations in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa... More »
Spencer Wells
Geneticist, anthropologist, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells has analyzed the DNA of thousands of people living in isolated tribes around the world. He leads the Genographic Project, a multi-year endeavor to chart the journey of our early ancestors as they populated the planet... More »
