Christoph Schwitzer

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Christoph Schwitzer (born June 14, 1973 in Cologne ) is a German primatologist and conservationist . His research focus is on the lemurs .

Life

After graduating from the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Cologne in 1992, Schwitzer did his community service in the Heilig-Geist-Hospital in Cologne-Longerich from 1992 to 1993 . In 1999 he began a zoology degree from the University of Cologne , where he in 1999 with the signature feeding behavior of the Black and Whites Vari (Varecia v. Variegata) in Zoo groups diploma was. After completing his doctoral studies at the same university, he received his doctorate in philosophy in 2003 with the dissertation Energy intake and obesity in captive lemurs (Primates, Lemuridae) on obesity in lemurs in zoos .

Schwitzer was a member of the primate research group at Cologne Zoo and spent two years in Madagascar, where he set up a field station in the Ankarafa forest between 2004 and 2005 and headed a lemur research and protection program. From September 2003 to December 2005, Schwitzer was program coordinator at the Association Européenne pour l'Etude et la Conservation des Lémuriens (AEECL), a consortium of European zoos in the protection of species for lemurs. He has been managing director there since 2007.

From August 2006 to 2014 he was director of the Bristol Zoological Society's research division , which oversees the Bristol Zoo and the Wild Place Project. From 2014 to 2018 he was Director of Nature Conservation and since August 2018 he has been Zoological Director and Deputy General Manager of the Bristol Zoological Society.

From 2012 to 2016, Schwitzer was Vice President of the International Primatological Society . Since 2013 he has been visiting professor at the University of the West of England . Schwitzer is Deputy Chairman of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group and in this position is co-editor of the IUCN report Primates in Peril , which has presented the 25 most endangered primates worldwide since 2000 . In 2008 and 2009 Schwitzer co-wrote Russell Mittermeier's two-volume Lemurs of Madagascar Pocket Identification Guide . In 2013 he was co-author of the chapters on the families of the cat lemurs (Cheirogaleidae), weasel lemurs (Lepilemuridae), common lemurs (Lemuridae), the indri-like (Indriidae) and the finger animals (Daubentoniidae) in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World involved.

literature

  • Energy intake and obesity in captive lemurs (Primates, Lemuridae) , dissertation at the University of Cologne, 2003 (with a curriculum vitae on p. 152)

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personal data
SURNAME Schwitzer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German primatologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne