Looking for real life animal experts...

We have a live poll here!
http://www.imdb.com/poll/1ogQeTpDhR4/?ref_=po_ti
Thanks everyone for the help! You guys are great!

Dang. I voted for Jane Goodall, but she wasn't a top runner (yet).

I think she's such a gentle, beautiful person. I'd love her to be my guide.

I also like it that she nick named her son Grub.

I don't think Sigourney Weaver or Paul Bettany should be in the running. They're not real life animal experts, they're actors playing real life animal experts.

You do realize that the people the actors represented in their respective movies don't have their photos on IMDb right? I had no alternative but to use the actors' images as place markers for the real wildlife experts whose names are clearly explicitly written in the text next to the actors' photos.

So they would not really be voting for Paul Bettany, but Charles Darwin?

I would hope Darwin's the one they are voting for. Most might understand the ballot but there has to be a small population who don't realize the biopic they are voting for was a real historical figure (and a rare few could be voting for the actor in the photo).

Not going back to look at the poll, off the top of my head, I don't know who Sigoruney represents.

oh...I see. It sez there. Dr Dian Fossey.

I was forgetting you're such a film buff and as such your field is limited to movies. That's fair enough, but so many modern day naturalists like Chris Packham, and even David Bellamy haven't been the subject of movies.

I was in the process of writing a poll for IMDb (Internet Movie Database and that includes television) not IBDb (Internet Biologists Database). Limitations are limitations.

John and Frank Craighead were (and is) the ranking experts of field study of grizzly bear

John Muir never been a movie bout him and he was what much of our National Park System was dedicated to

Hiram Bingham and Roy Chapman Andrews were 2 explorers and many say that these two were the "models" for Indiana Jones
Birute Galdikas, A Lithuanian/ Canadian wildlife expert and Rachel Carson a US version of same
John Franklin and Ernest Shackeleton while not "wildlife experts", they were both marine explorers of the old school when living in freezing boat cabins for years was what you signed on to do, and often youd be trapped in ice and could be lost (like Franklin) or have to row 800 miles across frigid Antarctic Se to find a little shack on a measly island 1000 miles south of Tierra del Fuego,(like Shakleton)

They did a feature on Shakleton but not Franklin

If you've included Don Johannsen, Id also include Neil SHubin (the expedition leader that fund a little "fishapod" fossil on Elsmere Island adter 3 strait years of snowy, crappy field camping each spring and summer.

George Adamson (played by Bill Travers in Born Free)

E O Wilson, the ant expert in the field and the lab

John Gould was DArwins bird expert and was given the credit for "opening Darwins eyes" about how different species appear.

Many artists have been some really important animal experts
John Jmes Audubon (or Jean Jacques Audubon s he was known in Louisiana). William Berry, the artist of field studies of MOOSES. Ned Smith was an artist naturalist remembered in NJ and Pa as a filed artist who would paint his birds on site in any kind of wather.
There iis John Lansdowne who, with his collaborators , produced the largest body of bird illustrations from all known species in the US and Canada. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, also a very prolific duck artist and expert on waterfowl.

Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator. Amazing illustrations of birds.

aye , forgot about Peterson, .

My folks used to rive me over to Reading Pa when I was a kid of 11 to 13. I was really interested in art and was riding a scholarship that included being an apprentice for a rather famous bird artist nd an ornithologist by avocation. A guy named Earl Lincoln Poole. He was getting old and most of my tuff was doing sidebar inkings and tempera messuage" backgrounds of rural houses and landscapes" fosr dioramas

I learned a lot from him regarding "foreshortening" in big spaces nd "atmospheric perspective". The famous "HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY was dedicated to him while he was still alive. I recall we went up there on a cold Fall day when the final eagles were flying and there was a dedication ceremony nd , as his lst student, I was asked to speak .

There was talk that he was a student of Howard Pyle. That would have been a tight timeline

Some more are Mqrk Moffett of the Museum of NAt History-an around the world hunter of wildlife photos and discoverer of new species.

Amy Wright-an outstanding big illustrator who gets close and personal with her subjects.
IF YOU HAVE ENUFF PLEASE STOP ME OR ILL KEEP GOING. Im an old man and I get these rememberies while Im driving and I have to write em down so that I can go back and see if these guys are still round. (They are)