Alison Jolly
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Alison Jolly (born Alison Bishop: May 9, 1937 – February 6, 2014) was an American primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology. She wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primarily at the Berenty Reserve, a small private reserve of gallery forest set in the semi-arid spiny desert area in the far south of Madagascar.
Biography
Born on May 9, 1937, in Ithaca, New York, to painter Alison Mason Kingsbury and poet Morris Bishop, she held a BA from Cornell University, and a PhD from Yale University; she had been a researcher at the New York Zoological Society, Cambridge University, University of Sussex, Rockefeller University, and Princeton University. In 1998, she was made Officer of the National Order of Madagascar (Officier de l'Ordre National, Madagascar). At the time of her death she was a visiting scientist at the University of Sussex.Template:R
Under her maiden name, she first published "Control of the Hand in Lower Primates" in 1962.Template:Sfn Jolly began studying lemur behavior at Berenty in 1963[1][2][3] and was first to propose female dominance in a primate society. She encouraged field studies that contributed to knowledge about Malagasy wildlife and advised many researchers; she briefed Jane Wilson-Howarth and colleagues before their first expedition to Madagascar in 1981. Since 1990, Jolly had returned for every birthing season to carry out research assisted by student volunteers.Template:R She focused on ring-tailed lemur demography, ranging, and especially inter-troop and territorial behavior, in the context of the fivefold difference in population density from front to back of the reserve.
Her scientific books include Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study, The Evolution of Primate Behavior and Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution.Template:R Her non-technical works include Madagascar: A World Out of Time and Lords & Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar.Template:R She also wrote numerous articles for consumer magazines and scientific journals.
Jolly was the author of two series of children's books—The Ako BooksTemplate:R and The Fiddle Stories. In 2005, she published the first story in the series of Ako Books. The purpose of this series of books is to teach to children around the world about the different types of lemurs and their critical habitats in Madagascar.[4]
Eponym
In June 2006, a new species of mouse lemur, Microcebus jollyae, was named for Jolly.Template:R
Personal life
In 1963, Alison Jolly married Richard Jolly, the development economist.[5] She died at home in Lewes, in February 6, 2014, aged 76.Template:R Her son Arthur is a playwright and screenwriter.
Publications
- Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study, University of Chicago Press, 1966[6]
- The Evolution of Primate Behavior, New York, 1972[6]
- Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution, New York, 1976[6]
- A World Like Our Own; Man and Nature in Madagascar, Yale University Press, 1980[6]
- Madagascar: A World Out of Time, 1984 with Frans Lanting & Gerald Durrell
- Madagascar, Key Environments Series, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1984[6]
- Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution, Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 1999[6]
- Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. 2004[6]
- Ringtailed Lemur Biology: Lemur catta in Madagascar. New York, Springer. 2006[6]
- Thank You, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly, 2015
Children's books
- Ny aiay Ako (Ako the Aye-Aye), 2005
- Bitika the Mouselemur, (2012)
- Tik-Tik the Ringtailed Lemur, (2012)
- Bounce the White Sifaka, (2012)
- Furry and Fuzzy the Red Ruffed Lemur Twin, (2012)
- No-Song the Indri, (2012)
- Fiddle and the See-Throughs, (2013)
- Fiddle and the Flint-Boy, (2013)
- Fiddle and the Headless Horseman, (2013)
- Fiddle and the Falling Tower, (2013)
- Fiddle and the Smugglers, (2013)
- Fiddle and the Fires, (2013)
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- Women primatologists
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- Academics of the University of Sussex
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- Cornell University alumni
- 1937 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century American women scientists
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- Recipients of orders, decorations, and medals of Madagascar