Primatology the Career You Never Knew You Wanted | Travis Steffens | TEDxStMaryCSSchool
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2018
- As an eight-year-old I declared that when I grew up I was going to become a monkey. Realizing the impossibility of this endeavor I decided that I was going to study monkeys instead. Years later I got a PhD in Biological Anthropology and spent nearly a decade in tropical forests searching for primates. I achieved my dream. But how did I get here? My talk describes the journey I took from eight-year-old wannabe monkey to primatologist, conservationist, and explorer. Travis Steffens is a lemur researcher, conservationist, and explorer. His research investigates how lemurs, the most endangered group of animals in the world, survive human disturbance. Committed to conservation Travis is the Founding Director of Planet Madagascar, a community conservation organization trying to build sustainable forest communities in Madagascar (planetmadagascar.org). Through Planet Madagascar he has launched a fire management program, conservation education campaign, forest restoration initiative, and built a women’s cooperative around sustainable agroforestry. As an International Fellow of the Explorers Club Travis co-led an expedition to the Tsingy of Madagascar in 2014 to search for undiscovered cave systems, fossilized dinosaur footprints, and archaeological sites. Travis also has a passion for travel and has led more than 60 group tours around the world including in North and Central America, Russia, Madagascar, and Southern Africa. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
My mom was learning anthropology when i was 2, and funny enough when i was 5 i watched george of the jungle on repeat for hours, now im 26 and i still love apes, ive decided to enroll in the military to pay my way into school to study them
This is my dream job, I want to become a primatologist. I'm only 12 but I have already researched so much about it!
NotLime awesome dude keep it up, I also hope to get into this field one day, I’m in my second year of college and I’m an Anthropology major. When you eventually go to college, I suggest majoring in Anthropology. If you don’t know what it is, it’s basically the study of humans from a cultural perspective, real interesting, but one major part of anthropology is studying non human primates, since it’s the study of humans and our closes related cousins, primates. You can also study extinct hominids such as Neanderthals, and there’s a lot of other opportunities and topics related to it, so considering it’s rare for a college to offer a primatology degree like this guy said, take Anthropology, and use that knowledge to get you to primatology, that’s my plan!
Yes it is, funny enough if you read the description this guy got his PhD in Biological Anthropology! So that is essentially the study of human evolution. To know this it would focus on both non human primates and extinct hominids like Neanderthals, pretty neat. Lots of jobs with that, teaching, researching, or like you wanna do, field work!
NotLime me to
NotLime I also want to be a primateoligest I bet we will learn a lot and I also researched it
Yess same
I just got my bachelors in biological anthropology. my story is similar lol. I am now thinking of going into primatology!
I have wanted to be a primatologist since i was 10 I’m 15 now and working towards it.
I didn't even know what a primate researcher was when I was 10 years old. Go after it, tiger.
Set up your curriculum during high school in a way that you will continue on this path.
You'll end up sitting through a bunch of classes that don't make sense to the thing that you're interested in or trying to figure out. But please persist. You could be great, mate.
Don't waste time. Go and get it. You could be apart of the first generation of scientists in human history that cracks a genomic miracle of understand with the help of AI learning.
This is my prof for my primate ecology and conservation class at u of c and I think he was wearing the same outfit today as he is in this video 😂
Was he a good prof?
Notsoo Basic yes, he was very interesting, but he was just a hard marker. I would still take another course with him though.
Here because Rampage
Jokes on you, I'm already want to be a primatologist
Dream job to
My goal in life ever since I was a kid Is to be a primatologist
This is my dream job I have always been interested in monkeys such as orangutans and chimpanzees
4 degrees in and i never knew of this career.
What universities did you go to?
All Ted talks feel the same, so lame.
James Lee don’t watch them then