William M. Fields
William M. Fields (born 1949), also known by the lexigram 20px, is an American qualitative investigator studying language, culture, and tools in non-human primates. He is best known for his collaboration with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh beginning in 1997 at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. There he co-reared Nyota 20px, a baby bonobo, with Panbanisha 20px, Kanzi 20px and Savage-Rumbaugh 20px. Fields and Savage-Rumbaugh are the only scientists in the world carrying out language research with bonobos.
