Dioscoro S. Rabor
Dioscoro Siarot Rabor (born May 18, 1911 in Carcar City , Cebu , † March 25, 1996 in Los Baños in the Laguna Province , Luzon , Philippines ), also known as Joe Rabor , was a Filipino zoologist and conservationist.
Life
Dioscoro Rabor graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1932 and a Master of Science degree in 1934 . In 1957 Sidney Dillon Ripley became his mentor at Yale University , where he received his Ph.D. PhD. In 1974 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Silliman University on Negros . Between 1935 and 1977, Rabor led more than 50 expeditions to 25 islands in the Philippines, where he discovered eight new species and 61 new subspecies of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles. On most of the expeditions he was accompanied by his wife Lina N. Florendo. The four daughters Iole Irena, Nectarinia Juliae, Ardea Ardeola and Alectis Cyrene were named after birds and fish, respectively. Rabor was a member of the planning committees of the International Ornithological Congresses in Oxford (1966), The Hague (1970) and Canberra (1974). In 1951 he became a member of the American Ornithologists' Union and in 1958 he was elected a corresponding member of this organization. Rabor was a dedicated conservationist who campaigned to protect the Philippine eagle. In 1975 he discovered the Dinagat bark rat ( Crateromys australis ), which subsequently remained missing for 37 years before being rediscovered by Czech zoologists in 2012. He wrote 87 books and scientific articles, including ten with Austin Loomer Rand , eight with Sidney Dillon Ripley and three with John Eleuthère DuPont .
Taxa named after Rabor
After Rabor include the rust head base Singer ( Robsonius rabori ), the Philippines tube nose bat ( Nyctimene rabori ), the Palawan Mountain Squirrel ( Sundasciurus rabori ), the Negros-Himmelsschnäpper ( Hypothymis coelestis rabori ) and Prionailurus bengalensis rabori (subspecies of Bengal from the island of Cebu). Rabor's wife is honored in the specific epithet of the Linanectar bird ( Aethopyga linaraborae ).
literature
- Robert S. Kennedy & Hector C. Miranda: In Memoriam Discoro S. Rabor, 1911-1996 in The Auk Vol. 115 (1): pp. 204-205, 1998. PDF, Online
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| SURNAME | Rabor, Dioscoro S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rabor, Joe; Rabor, Dioscoro Siarot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Filipino zoologist and conservationist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carcar City , Cebu , Philippines |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1996 |
| Place of death | Los Baños , Luzon, Philippines |