Experts by Specialty: Biologist
Randy Babb
Biologist Randy Babb has served as a consultant for National Geographic television programs on ecology. A specialist in herpetology, Randy has taught rain forest ecology courses in Latin America and enjoys introducing people of all ages to the creatures of the jungle—from large mammals to the tiniest insects and frogs... More »
Bill Branch
Bill Branch has been a wildlife biologist at the Port Elizabeth Museum, 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 »
Jeannette Hanby
Jeannette Hanby earned her PhD for behavioural research on Japanese monkeys. She is fascinated by the mechanisms that keep social groups of any species together... More »
Jill Pruetz
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Jill Pruetz is a biological anthropologist who specializes in primatology. An associate professor at Iowa State University, Jill spent two years in East Africa researching patas and vervet monkeys as well as Grevy's zebras... More »
Betsy Robinson
Wildlife biologist Betsy Robinson is a naturalist guide, a teacher, and an avid outdoorswoman. As co-founder and executive director of a non-profit wildlife research organization, she has conducted studies on wolverine and lynx populations in the northern Rocky Mountains, research on grizzly bears on Kodiak Island and in Glacier National Park, and bird surveys in Prince William Sound... More »
Jeremy Schmidt
Writer, photographer, and biologist Jeremy Schmidt has written several books for National Geographic and articles for National Geographic and National Geographic Traveler magazines. Jeremy has spent more than 30 years in the Yellowstone area, working as a winter keeper, park ranger, naturalist, photographer, and author... More »
Cecil Schwalbe
Research ecologist and herpetologist Cecil Schwalbe has been leading natural history workshops for more than 26 years, including many expeditions to Costa Rica. Cecil was part of an international research effort to save loggerhead and black sea turtles, and he recently worked with National Geographic magazine on a story about the global plight of frogs... 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 »
