{UAH} Sam Wasser pours his intense passion for protecting wildlife into research and catching poachers | The Seattle Times

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/sam-wasser-pours-his-intense-passion-for-protecting-wildlife-into-research-and-catching-poachers/

"When vet school didn't work out — Wasser gave up eating meat after having to slaughter a chicken — the family scraped together enough money to send him to Africa, the ultimate destination for a budding wildlife biologist. But when he arrived in 1973, his plan to join researchers studying lions in Uganda was derailed after dictator Idi Amin's troops raided their camp.

Marooned and alone, Wasser finally hooked up with another research project in Kenya, which landed him in the thick of the annual migration of nearly 2 million wildebeests and zebra and sparked a lifelong infatuation. "I turned 20 during that study, and it changed my life," he says. "For many, many years, all I cared about was going to Africa."

He returned in 1979 as a UW doctoral student studying baboons in Tanzania. Wasser spent more than a decade, off and on, observing the primates and unraveling their complex social lives. He came to know the animals so intimately that when he returned after months away, he could immediately match new youngsters with their mothers just by appearance."

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