Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
John Terborgh
Born: April 16, 1936 (age 88)
Bio: John Whittle Terborgh is a James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science at Duke University and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation.
Known for:
- Requiem for Nature (1999)
- Five New World primates (1983)
- Diversity and the tropical rain forest (1992)
- Where have all the birds gone? (1989)
- Tropical Deforestation (1992)