Dietmar Zinner

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Dietmar Zinner (born January 2, 1957 ) is a German zoologist , ethologist and primatologist .

Life

From 1979 Zinner studied biology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he obtained his diploma in 1985 with the thesis ontogeny of taste reactions in cataracts (Sturnus vulgaris) . In 1993 he was at the same university with the dissertation food competition in mantled baboons. An experimental study on Dr. rer. nat. PhD. For this he received an award for the best doctoral thesis from the natural science faculty and the sponsorship award of the German Primate Center in Göttingen for young scientists. From 1993 to 1994 there was a post-doctoral phase in the Department of Behavioral Research and Ecology at the German Primate Center and from 1994 to 1995 at the Center for Tropical Ecology at Duke University in Durham , North Carolina . From 1996 to 2004 he was a research assistant in the department for behavioral research and ecology at the German Primate Center and since 2004 he has been a senior scientist in the department of cognitive ethology at the German Primate Center.

Zinner is a member of the German Ornithological Society, the German Zoological Society, the Ethological Society, the Society for Primatology, the International Primatological Society and the IUCN Primate Specialist Group.

Zinner's research interests include the evolution of social systems as well as the ecology and phylogeography in primates , the phylogeny and evolution of non-human primates, group coordination in non-human primates, and the influence of mating behavior on the spread of venereal diseases in wild baboons .

In 2006 he was involved in the first descriptions of seven lemur species , including Lepilemur aeeclis , Avahi meridionalis , Avahi peyrierasi , Avahi ramanantsoavanai , Lepilemur mittermeieri , Lepilemur randrianasoloi and Lepilemur sahamalazensis . In the same year he was one of the first to describe the fossil trunk genus Eritrea from the Oligocene . In 2019 he was one of the co-authors of a study in which the genetic code of baboons was broken down for the first time .

2013 was Zinner co-author of the chapter on the family of the Cercopithecidae (Cercopithecidae) in the third volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World . In the same year he was responsible for the publication of the German trivial names in Jonathan Kingdon's Mammals of Africa , alongside Torsten Wronski . Zinner was also an editor for the Journal of Human Evolution and is for the journal Primate Biology .

In 2015, Zinner received the prize of the Center Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (Swiss Center for Scientific Research in the Ivory Coast, CSRS) for his research on the identification of habitats for threatened primate species in the Ivory Coast.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rogers et al .: The comparative genomics and complex population history of Papio baboons In: Science Advances, Volume 5, No. 1, January 2019
  2. ^ Idw: Research Prize for DPZ scientist Dietmar Zinner from July 8, 2015, accessed on May 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zinner, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethologist and primatologist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1957