John Seidensticker

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John Christian Seidensticker IV (born July 20, 1944 in Whitehall , Montana ) is an American ecologist and conservationist . His main interest is the tigers .

Life

Seidensticker is the first son of John Christian Seidensticker III and Gladys Block Seidensticker. His father was a country doctor. Seidensticker grew up on a cattle ranch near Twin Bridges in Montana. His childhood experiences, which influenced his love for nature, set the course for his later professional career as a nature conservation biologist and ecologist. In 1966 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and in 1968 a Master of Science from the University of Montana . In 1973 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Idaho. PhD.

From 1973 to 1976 Seidensticker was a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1979 he became a visiting scholar and from 1980 to 1984 he was a wildlife ecologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, DC From 1984 to 1986 he was assistant curator, from 1986 to 1989 he was associate curator in the department of mammalogy, from 1989 to 2000 he was curator and from 2000 to 2003 he directed the mammals division of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. In 2003 he became a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center.

Seidensticker is married to the biologist Susan Lumpkin, who supports him in his research companies and book projects. The couple have a daughter.

Research work

Seidensticker 's work focuses on understanding and promoting landscape patterns and conditions in which large mammals can be preserved in their populations. This includes the training of future conservationists and the dissemination of the relevant environmental understanding through book projects, public appearances and zoo exhibitions.

From 1970 he studied the social behavior of pumas in Idaho, which had previously been equipped with radio collars for the first time . He wrote his doctoral thesis on this at the University of Idaho in 1973. In 1972 Seidensticker became chief investigator of the Nepal Tiger Ecology Project of the Smithsonian Institution , where until 1974 wild Bengal tigers were captured in Chitwan National Park and provided with radio collars for the first time.

After a last confirmed sighting of the Java tiger ( Panthera tigris sondaica ) in 1972, Seidensticker and his Indonesian colleague Suyono undertook search expeditions in the Meru Betiri game reserve (since 1987 Betiri Meru National Park) in eastern Java between 1974 and 1976. In 1976, traces were found that could be assigned to three to five tigers. However, no live animals were discovered. After a project by the World Wildlife Fund to rediscover the Java tiger failed in 1994, this subspecies was declared extinct by the IUCN in 1996 .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1980: The Javan Tiger and the Meru-Betiri Reserve: A Plan for Management , International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Gland, Switzerland) (with Ir. Suyono)
  • 1984: Managing Elephant Depradation in Agricultural and Forestry Projects / Bk0297 (World Bank Technical Papers)
  • 1990: Asian Elephants. Natural History Classics from the National Zoological Park
  • 1991: Mighty Creatures: Great Cats (German: Große Katzen , Jahr Verlag, 1991)
  • 1995: Dangerous Animals
  • 1996: Tigers
  • 1996: Cats and wild cats
  • 1999: Riding the Tiger: Tiger Conservation in Human-Dominated Landscapes
  • 2001: The Smithsonian Book of Giant Pandas
  • 2004: Smithsonian Answer Book: Cats
  • 2005: Encyclopedia of Discovery: Animals
  • 2006: Cats: The Ultimate Question and Answer Book
  • 2007: Giant Pandas
  • 2008: Predators (German: Raubtiere , Oetinger, 2008)
  • 2011: Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide

literature

  • John Seidensticker. In: Contemporary Authors Online , Gale, 2009. Biography in Context. Retrieved online January 22, 2017.
  • John Seidensticker. In: The Writers Directory , St. James Press, 2016. Biography in Context. Retrieved online January 22, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John C. Seidensticker, IV, Maurice G. Hornocker, Wilbur V. Wiles and John P. Messick Source: Mountain Lion Social Organization in the Idaho Primitive Area. Wildlife Monographs, No. 35 (Dec. 1973), pp. 3-60
personal data
SURNAME Seidensticker, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidensticker, John Christian IV (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ecologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitehall , Montana