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Janette Wallis Editor

Anne E. Russon is a Professor of Psychology at Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada, whose research focuses on learning and intelligence in ex-captive Bornean orangutans. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, Indonesia, and several orang-utan conservation agencies. She has edited two volumes for Cambridge University Press: The Evolution of Thought: Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence (with D. R. Begun, 2004) and Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes (with K. Bard and S. Parker, 1996). Janette Wallis has published extensively on a wide range of issues in primatology, including conservation. Currently, she is the Editor of the African Conservation Telegraph, the newsletter of the Society for Conservation Biology-Africa Section and the Budongo Forest Research Station's newsletter. She is on the Board of Directors for the Society for Conservation Biology-Africa Section, and Vice President for Conservation for the International Primatological Society. Previously, she has served as the Series Editor of the American Society of Primatologists' Book Series.