Fred Bercovitch, PhD is a wildlife conservation biologist and Executive Director of Save the Giraffes. He is also an adjunct Professor at Kyoto University and at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He has studied baboons in Kenya, rhesus monkeys in Puerto Rico, giraffes in Zambia and South Africa, wild dogs in Zambia, elephants in Botswana, koalas in Australia, and snow monkeys in Japan, as well as cheetahs, Nile lechwe, giraffe, koalas, elephants, bushbabies, and California condors in captivity. He has published a number of scientific articles, as well as contributing to San Diego Zoo’s Zooonooz magazine, Mongabay and USA Today.
