Peter Grubb (zoologist)

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Peter Grubb (* 1942 in Ealing , London Borough of Ealing , † December 23, 2006 in London ) was an English zoologist. His research focus was the systematics and distribution of African mammals.

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Grubb's father, William Grubb, first worked as a research chemist for Imperial Chemical Industries and later as a science teacher in Scotland. His mother Anne Sirutis was a school teacher from Lithuania. His younger sister Katrina is an artist. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from University College London , he became a research assistant at the Wellcome Institute of Comparative Physiology of the Zoological Society of London . In the early 1960s he went to the Scottish St. Kilda Islands for three years and studied the Soay sheep for his dissertation. For this work he was awarded the Thomas Henry Huxley Award of the Zoological Society of London in 1968. In the same year he took part in an expedition of the Royal Society to the Aldabra Atoll, where he studied the giant tortoises in particular . In the following years he worked for twelve years as a lecturer at the University of Ghana .

In 1993 and 2005 he was involved in the reference work Mammal Species of the World , where he wrote the chapters on the ungulates and ungulates . He has also written articles for Mammalian Species , the journal of the American Society of Mammalogists . He published checklists on West African mammals, including those from Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Ghana, and wrote several revisions, including those on warthogs , giraffe gazelles, and buffalo . In 1993 he co-authored the IUCN publication Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan . His first scientific descriptions include Cephalophus crusalbum , Felis margarita harrisoni , Muntiacus atherodes , Cephalophus hypoxanthus , Cephalophus curticeps , Cephalophus lestradei , Moschus cupreus , Cercopithecus erythrogaster pococki and Piliocolobus epieni .

In June 2006 Grubb was honored with the Stamford Raffles Award from the Zoological Society of London. After two operations in January and October 2005 to remove a tumor, he died of cancer in December 2006. He was married and had a son and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zoological Society of London announces winners of its annual awards ( Memento of February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Grubb, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ealing , London Borough of Ealing
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2006
Place of death London