Craig Stanford is an evolutionary biologist and wildlife conservationist, Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California and Research Associate at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He has carried out field research on four continents, including 20 years studying wild chimpanzees and long-term conservation work on turtles and tortoises. He is the author of some 175 scientific publications and 20 previous books, among them The Last Tortoise and Unnatural Habitat: Native and Exotic Wildlife in Los Angeles.