Julian Kerbis Peterhans

Julian Christof Kerbis Peterhans (born December 13, 1952 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American mammal loge . His main research interests are the small mammals of East and Central Africa .

Life

Kerbis Peterhans is the son of the architect Gertrude Kerbis (1926–2016) and the photographer Walter Peterhans (1897–1960). In 1974 he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Beloit College in Wisconsin . In 1979 he graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago . From 1981 to 1982 he was a lecturer at Loyola University Chicago . From 1987 to 1989 he was collections manager on the Committee on Environmental Biology at the University of Chicago. In 1989 and 1992-1993 he was co-project leader at the National Science Foundation . In 1990 he was with the dissertation The Roles of Porcupines, Leopards and Hyenas in ungulate Carcass Dispersal: Implications for Paleoanthropology at the University of Chicago in anthropology for Ph.D. PhD. In the same year he became a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In 1992 he was a consultant at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's forensic laboratory . In 1993 he became a research fellow on the Committee on Environmental Biology at the University of Chicago. Since 2004, he has been Associate Curator in the Mammalian Department at the Field Museum of Natural History and Associate Professor of Science at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

The research interests of Kerbis Peterhans include the systematics and distribution of African small mammals, especially those that occur on the mountain peaks of the Albertine Rift in Central Africa, the fossilization of mammals in African rainforests and savannahs, the creation of a collection of genetic fingerprints that can be used for determination of predation factors , the sociobiology of prey and paleoanthropology .

In 2001, Kerbis Peterhans and Thomas Patrick Gnoske published the study The Science of 'Man-Eating' Among Lions Panthera leo with a Reconstruction of the Natural History of the 'Man-Eaters of Tsavo' , about two man-eating lions who died in 1898 allegedly 135 railway workers are said to have fallen victim to the Tsavo River . After examining historical records, research and museum specimens, as well as records of other incidents of man-eating lions, they concluded that the actual number of railroad workers killed was likely closer to 28. Although this number was much lower than originally thought, the Tsavo incident was not as unique as previously described: Kerbis Peterhans and Gnoske found that man-eating lions appeared regularly in the Tsavo region from the first half of the 19th century until World War II .

Kerbis Peterhans is a member of the American Society of Mammalogists . In 2013 he wrote some art entries for Kingdon's Mammals of Africa .

Kerbis Peterhans one of the Erstbeschreibern by some Spitzmaus-, rodent and bat species, including Crocidura lwiroensis , Myosorex bururiensis , Myosorex gnoskei , Myosorex jejei , Myosorex kabogoensis , Myosorex meesteri , Praomys degraaffi , Rhinolophus Kahuzi , Rhinolophus willardi , Suncus hututsi and Surdisorex schlitteri .

Dedication names

In 2014, the Kerbis Peterhans African wood mouse ( Hylomyscus kerbispeterhansi ) was named after Julian Kerbis Peterhans.

literature

• Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Biography In Context, accessed April 22, 2018.

Web links

• Bibliography at Google Scholar
• University of Chicago Magazine: Out of Africa (article on Julian Kerbis Peterhans' research in Africa)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Thomas Patrick Gnoske: The Science of 'Man-Eating' Among Lions Panthera leo with a Reconstruction of the Natural History of the 'Man-Eaters of Tsavo' Journal of East African Natural History, 90 (1) , Nature Kenya / East African Natural History Society, 2001, pp. 1-40.