Jordi Sabater Pi

Jordi Sabater i Pi ( born August 2, 1922 in Barcelona, † August 5, 2009 in Barcelona) was a Catalan ethologist. He studied in particular the behavior of chimpanzees and gorillas.

From 1940 to 1969 he lived and conducted research Jordi Sabater Pi in Equatorial Guinea. In 1970, he studied psychology at the University of Barcelona, where he became professor in 1977 and retired in 1987. His research results include the discovery of tool culture of chimpanzees in the Okorobiko Mountains and the study of the Goliath frogs in the waterfalls of Calabarflusses and the Rio del Ney in Cameroon. Sabater Pi drew the animals that he explored. The Documentation Centre of the Parc de Barcelona Cientific collected among many of its documents and over 2,000 of his drawings.

Jordi Sabater won the popular albino gorilla Copito de Nieve in the Barcelona Zoo. He supported the initiative Proyecto Gran Simio, which advocates an extension of human rights to apes. It was in 1991 awarded the Catalan Foundation for Research Prize, 1996 with the gold medal of the Scientific Achievement at the Barcelona City Council and in 2004 with the Narcis Monturiol Medal for Scientific and Technological Achievement of the Generalitat of Catalonia. He was twice nominated for the Kyoto Prize Foundation in Japan.