Vanessa Woods Bio, Age, Education, Husband, Books, Net Worth, Bonobo Handshake

Vanessa Woods Biography

Vanessa Woods is an Australian science writer, author, and journalist. She is main Australian/New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel. Woods is a New York Times Bestselling author, researcher, and journalist. She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Genius of Dogs(Dutton 2013), and Bonobo Handshake (Gotham 2010). It won the Thomas Lowell Award for non-fiction.

In 2007, Vanessa’s children’s book, It’s True: Space Turns You into Spaghetti, won the Acclaimed Book award from the Royal Society. In 2005, Vanessa won the Australasian Science award for journalism. Vanessa’s other titles include Headstarts: 100 tips for raising clever, confident, creative kids (2011), It’s Every Monkey for Themselves(2007), It’s True: pirates ate rats (2007), and It’s True: there are bugs in your bed (2004).

Her books have been published in 12 languages. Vanessa has written hundreds of popular science articles. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, National Geographic, New Scientist and BBC Wildlife.

Vanessa Woods Age | Vanessa Woods Parents

Woods was born in 1977. Subsequently, Vanessa is 42 years old. 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. Also s True Story of Sex, Love, and Lies in the Jungle. Details of her parent’s names, occupation, and other family information are currently under review.

Vanessa Woods College | Vanessa Woods Education

When it comes to her education, Vanessa is a graduate of the Australian National University with a Master’s degree in Science Communication. Working with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. She is a Research Scientist at Duke University.

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She spent 10 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo studying bonobos. A species of great ape as genetically close to humans as the Common Chimpanzee. This was in order to make comparisons between the behaviors of humankind and ape. She wrote an in-depth report on killer bees encountered during her studies in Costa Rica.

Vanessa Woods Husband

As for Vanessa’s love life, She is happily married to her husband Brian Hare. Brian is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. He researches the evolution of cognition by studying both humans, our close relatives the primates, and species whose cognition converged with our own. Hare founded and co-directs the Duke Canine Cognition Center. Woods and her husband live in North Carolina. There are no reports of the couple having any children as of now.

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Currently a Research Scientist at Duke University, since 2005, Vanessa has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo studying bonobos, and the People’s Republic of Congo studying chimpanzees. Vanessa is interested in comparing the cognition of bonobos and chimpanzees, and learning what bonobos can tell us about becoming a more peaceful species.

Vanessa is also the co-founder of www.dognition.com, a website. It involves the community in citizen science by evaluating and comparing the cognition of dogs. She wrote an in-depth report on killer bees encountered during her studies in Costa Rica. Woods has also written a piece on the yearly cherry blossom experience in Kyoto, Japan.

Vanessa Woods Books

Alabaster Oil – 2018
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think – 2013
Headstarts: 100 Tips for Raising Clever, Confident, Creative Kids – 2011
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo – 2010
It’s Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love and Lies in the Jungle – 2007
It’s True! Pirates Ate Rats (27) – 2007
Space Turns You Into Spaghetti – 2006
It’s True! There Are Bugs in Your Bed (4) – 2004

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Vanessa Woods Net Worth

Woods earns an average salary from her career. Although she has not shared with the public the actual figure of her salary. her estimated net worth is currently under review.

Vanessa Woods Quotes

“We do terrible things to the ones we love. We cheat and lie and betray them, for thirty pieces of silver or our own selfish hearts. The only way love endures is because of one simple gift. Forgiveness.”
“When I talk to people about what makes us human, some people say it’s our tears. Because we are the only ones who weep, only we can feel true sorrow. When I hear this, I remember Isiro’s face, her anguished eyes as she cried for Mikeno, how she screamed at the keepers with her teeth bared and pushed at the poles. How she dashed back to his body and dug her fingers into his chest as if the strength of her grip could bring him back. There is sorrow without tears. Of course, there is.”
“If there are those you love, whoever or wherever you are, hold them. Find them and hold them as tightly as you can. Resist their squirming and impatience and uncomfortable laughter, and just feel their heart throbbing against yours. Give thanks that for this moment, for this one precious moment, they are here, they are with you, and they know they are utterly, completely, entirely loved.”

More quotes

“It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?”
“When Joseph Conrad saw how Europeans behaved in Congo in 1890, he described them as “reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage…To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.” More than a hundred years later, not much has changed.”
“There is something in the eyes of a bonobo that you don’t see in those of a tiger or a shark. They are human eyes, but not the cautious glimpse of a stranger you pass on a city street or the pretended interest of a shrink you’re paying $300 an hour. Or someone you think you recognize but don’t. The eyes of a bonobo are the eyes of your best friend or a lover or a priest. They see into you, they see nothing else, they invite confession.”
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