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Vanessa Woods

Vanessa Woods (born 1977) is an Australian science writer, author and journalist, and is the main Australian/New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel. A graduate of the Australian National University with a Master's degree in Science Communication, and an author of children's books, she is best known for her work in both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo comparing the different cooperative behaviors of bonobos and common chimpanzees. Her mother is of Chinese descent. She is the author of ''Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo'' and ''It's Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love, and Lies in the Jungle''. Provided by Wikipedia