Anne Rasa

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Olwen Anne Elisabeth Rasa (* 1940 in Wales ) is a British ethologist who has made a particular contribution to research into the social behavior of the little mongoose .

Professional background

Study and training

Anne Rasa graduated in 1961 as Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. (Hons.)) At the Royal College of Science of the Imperial College of London University . Subsequently, she received a scholarship from the NATO to the aggression explore fish. In 1965 she graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) from the University of Hawaii .

Scientific work

Anne Rasa deepened her research on aggression in fish with the help of a grant from the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology . The subject of their research was the coral fish . She did her doctorate in 1970 at the University of London under her doctoral supervisor Konrad Lorenz .

A Humboldt fellowship enabled Anne Rasa to continue working at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen under Konrad Lorenz from 1970 to 1974 . During this time she began her studies on the little mongoose . The focus of her work was on researching social structures, marking behavior and aggression within the group.

In 1975 Anne Rasa moved to the University of Marburg as a research assistant , where she completed her habilitation in 1981 on the subject of behavioral ontogenesis of dwarf mongooses .

A Heisenberg scholarship brought her to the University of Bayreuth from 1981 to 1986 . As part of her research there, Anne Rasa spent several years in the Taru Desert in Kenya to study the behavior of the little mongoose in the wild and to compare it with her observations of animals living in captivity. The results of their studies appeared in the book The Perfect Family , to which Konrad Lorenz wrote the foreword. In it he puts the results of Anne Rasa’s studies on a par with the work of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey : “The importance of his results can hardly be exaggerated and can be compared with the groundbreaking insights that we owe to Jane Goodall. (...) The entire presentation is a masterpiece, in which mastery of the ability to observe, analytical thinking and literary presentation combine into a whole that can hardly be surpassed in its kind. ”The book and its results were published in 1984 by Bernhard Grzimek in the TV program Expedition into the Animal Kingdom presented and translated into several languages.

In 1986 Anne Rasa was appointed professor at the University of Pretoria , South Africa . She taught ethology there until 1991 and began her studies of fox mongoose in the Kalahari .

In 1991 Anne Rasa accepted the call from the University of Bonn , where she also taught ethology at the Institute of Zoology. Until her retirement on September 30, 2000, she continued her studies on the fox mongoose. In addition, the tenebrionid beetle Parastizopus armaticeps was one of her subjects of study.

Retirement until today

Since December 2000 Anne Rasa has lived at the southern end of the Kalahari in the Kalahari Trails nature reserve , South Africa, which she acquired a few years before her retirement. In addition to overnight accommodation, it also offers guided hikes through the dunes of the Kalahari to familiarize those interested with the flora and fauna of the desert .

In 2007 the book KALAHARI - Magnificent Desert with pictures and texts by Anne Rasa was published by the South African private publisher OSHANA .

Anne Rasa is currently working as a scientific advisor on the Kalahari Trails television series , which is filmed about the Kalahari.

Anne Rasa has three children and four grandchildren.

literature

  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Territoriality and the Establishment of Dominance by means of Visual Cues in Pomacentrus jenkinsi (Pisces: Pomacentridae) in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 26, Issue 7, pp. 825-845, Blackwell, 1969.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: The Effect of Pair Isolation on Reproductive Success in Etroplus maculatus (Cichlidae) in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 26, Issue 7, pp. 846-852, Blackwell, 1969.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Social Interaction and Object Manipulation in Weaned Pups of the Northern Elephant Seal Mirounga angustirostris in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 82-102, Blackwell, 1971.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa, H. Caspers: Appetence for Aggression in juvenile Damsel Fish. Supplement 7 to the Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Paul Parey, 1971.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Marking Behavior and its Social Significance in the African Dwarf Mongoose, Helogale undulata rufula in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 32, Issue 3, Blackwell, 1973.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Prey Capture, Feeding Techniques, and their Ontogeny in the African Dwarf Mongoose, Helogale undulata rufula in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 32, Issue 5, pp. 449-488, Blackwell, 1973.
  • Anne Rasa: Intra-familial sexual repression in the dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) in Naturwissenschaften , Volume 60, Number 6, pp. 303-304, Springer, 1973.
  • Bernhard Grzimek, Anne Rasa, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, et al .: Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia, Vol.1, Lower animals , Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Mongoose sociology and behavior as related to zoo exhibition in International Zoo Yearbook , Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 65-73, 1975.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Aggression: Appetite or aversion? - An ethologist's viewpoint in Aggressive Behavior , Volume 2, Issue 3, pp. 213-222, Wiley-Liss, 1976.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Invalid Care in the Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale undulata rufula) in Ethology , Volume 42, Issue 4, pp. 337-342, Blackwell, 1976.
  • Anne Rasa: The ethology and sociology of the dwarf mongoose (Helogale undulata rufula) in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Vol. 43, No. 4, Paul Parey, 1977.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: The Effects of Crowding on the Social Relationships and Behavior of the Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale undulata rufula) in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 317-329, Blackwell, 1979.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Towards a structural concept of agonism in Aggressive Behavior , Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 253-260, Wiley-Liss, 1982.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: A Case of Invalid Care in Wild Dwarf Mongooses in Ethology , Volume 62, Issue 3, pp. 235-240, Blackwell, 1983.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: A motivational analysis of object play in juvenile dwarf mongooses (Helogale undulata rufula) in Animal Behavior , Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 579-589, 1984.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa, H. van den Höövel: Social Stress in the Fieldvole: Differential Causes of Death in Relation to Behavior and Social Structure in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Volume 65, Issue 2, pp. 108-133, Blackwell, 1984 .
  • Anne E. Rasa: The Perfect Family , DVA, 1984, ISBN 3-421-02736-6 .
  • Anne Rasa: Mongoose Watch: A Family Observed , John Murray, 1985, ISBN 0-7195-4240-5 .
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Coordinated Vigilance in Dwarf Mongoose Family Groups: The 'Watchman's Song' Hypothesis and the Costs of Guarding in Ethology , Volume 71, Issue 4, pp. 340-344, Blackwell, 1986.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Patterns of intra-African small raptor spring migrations in the Taru Desert, Kenya in African Journal of Ecology , Volume 25, Issue 3, pp. 165-171, 1987.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa, M. Hopp: Age and sex-related differences in threat perception in a modern urban society in Aggressive Behavior , Volume 15, Issue 5, pp. 389-398, Wiley-Liss, 1989.
  • Anne Rasa, Christian Vogel, Eckart Voland: The Sociobiology of sexual and reproductive strategies , Chapman and Hall, 1989.
  • Rasa OAE, Wenhold BA, Howard P.; A. Marais: Reproduction in the yellow mongoose revisited in South African Journal of Zoology , Vol. 27, No. 4, p. 192, 1992.
  • BA Wenhold, OAE Rasa: Territorial marking in the Yellow mongoose Cynictis penicillata: sexual advertisement for subordinates? in Zeitschrift für Mammalkunde , Vol. 59, No. 3, p. 129, 1994.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Parabiosis and its Proximate Mechanisms in Four Kalahari Desert Tenebrionid Beetles in Ethology , Volume 98, Issue 2, pp. 137-148, Blackwell, 1994.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Aggregation in a Desert Tenebrionid Beetle: A Cost / Benefit Analysis in Ethology , Volume 103, Issue 6, pp. 466-487, Blackwell, 1997.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Biparental investment and reproductive success in a subsocial desert beetle: the role of maternal effort in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , Volume 43, Number 2, pp. 105-113, Springer, 1998.
  • O. Anne E. Rasa: Division of Labor and Extended Parenting in a Desert Tenebrionid Beetle in Ethology , Volume 105, Issue 1, pp. 37-56, Blackwell, 1999.
  • Michael Streif, O. Anne E. Rasa: Divorce and its consequences in the Common Blackbird Turdus merula in Ibis , Volume 143, Issue 3, pp. 554-560, 2001.
  • Dik Heg, O. Anne E. Rasa: Effects of parental body condition and size on reproductive success in a tenebrionid beetle with biparental care in Ecological Entomology , Volume 29, Issue 4, pp. 410-419, 2004.
  • KALAHARI - Magnificent Desert. OSHANA Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-620-35898-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne E. Rasa: The perfect family. DVA 1985, pp. 8-9.
  2. ↑ Kalahari Trails homepage
personal data
SURNAME Rasa, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasa, Olwen Anne Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ethologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wales