Vanessa Woods
Science writer and journalist
Vanessa Woods is an Australian-born science writer and journalist who has researched bonobos and chimpanzees in Congo. She co-wrote The Genius of Dogs.
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Australian Born 1977 in Australia
About Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods is an Australian-born science writer and journalist. Her articles have appeared in New Scientist, BBC Wildlife and the New York Times, and she won the Australasian Science award for journalism in 2003. She is best known for her work in the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has compared the cooperative behavior of bonobos and common chimpanzees. She wrote the memoir Bonobo Handshake and several children's books, including It's True! Space Turns You Into Spaghetti, which received an award from the Royal Society in 2007. Woods co-wrote The Genius of Dogs with her husband. It became a New York Times bestseller.