Fred B. Bercovitch, Ph.D.

Fred Bercovitch received his B.A. (University of California, Berkeley), M.A. (Arizona State University), and Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) in Biological Anthropology, specializing in studies of primates. He spent 2.5 years living in Kenya conducting research on the sex life of baboons for his Ph.D. Since then he has studied koalas, African elephants, rhesus monkeys, and giraffes in the wild, as well as California condors, Nile lechwe, and cheetahs while working for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. He has published over 150 scientific articles on topics as diverse as behavior, ecology, genetics, physiology, development, endocrinology, animal welfare, evolution, and conservation. His scientific background provides a foundation for combining evolutionary biology with conservation. He is a Charles Darwin aficionado, having read The Origin of Species over a dozen times and traveled to some of the places that Darwin lived and visited. Outside of his academic interests, he is an avid backpacker and hiker, news and politics addict, travel devotee, sports fan, fitness fanatic, and ardent consumer of biography and military history.