Vernon Reynolds, Date of Birth

Vernon Reynolds

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1935

Profession: anthropologist, primatologist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Vernon Reynolds (born 14 December 1935) is a British biological anthropologist known for his research on chimpanzee behavior.
He has been described as "...one of a trio of pioneers (Jane Goodall and Adriaan Kortlandt being the others) who founded field studies of chimpanzees in the 1960s."Reynolds was educated at Collyer's School, Horsham and University College, London.
He taught anthropology at the University of Bristol from 1966 to 1972, when he was appointed University Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
He continued to teach at Oxford from 1972 until his 2001 retirement.
He is an Emeritus Fellow at Oxford's Magdalen College.Reynolds is known for his research on the chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest of Uganda.
In 1962, he and his wife Frances began living in a service bungalow in the Budongo Forest and observing the chimps there for eight months.
This research revealed that the chimps of Budongo existed in a "fission and fusion" system, in which individuals repeatedly separated from groups, only to rejoin them later.
He founded the Budongo Conservation Field Station in the Budongo Forest in 1990, and has written two books about the chimpanzees that live there.
He is also known for his criticism of Pierre L.
van den Berghe's theory of ethnic nepotism.