Peter Vogel (zoologist)

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Peter Vogel (born February 5, 1942 in Bern ; † January 12, 2015 ) was a Swiss zoologist . His main research interests included the mammalian family of shrews (Soricidae).

Life

Vogel grew up in Bern and became a member of the Bernese Society for Ornithology and Bird Protection as a child. In 1959 he met his future wife, whom he married in 1966. In 1965 he wrote his first article for the Swiss magazine Sterna with the title Occurrence and breeding record of the thick-billed mum, Uria lomvia, on Vedoy, Lofoten . From 1966 to 1970 he studied at the University of Basel , where with a thesis on which he morphology and ontogeny of shrews to Ph.D. PhD. During his studies, Peter Vogel completed several internships in bird sanctuaries in Switzerland, Sylt and Norway. From autumn 1970 to 1973 he was director of the Center Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Abidjan , Ivory Coast . During this time he studied the ecological problems of tropical small mammals, especially the pygmy otter shrew ( Micropotamogale lamottei ). From 1973 to 1979 he taught as an associate professor and from 1979 to 2007 as a full professor at the University of Lausanne .

From 1973 to 1995 he was director of the Institute for Zoology and Ecology at the University of Lausanne. Since 2007 he has been professor emeritus and honorary professor at the University of Lausanne. Vogel's areas of interest included vertebrate biology, especially the ecology of mammals and birds, development and reproductive biology , bioenergetics , body temperature, phylogeography of Mediterranean shrews and competitive behavior. In 2011 Vogel succeeded in rediscovering the Etruscan shrew in the Swiss canton of Ticino , a species that had been considered lost in this country for 116 years. He was also one of the first to describe the Canary Shrew ( Crocidura canariensis ) from the Canary Islands , the Hutan shrew ( Crocidura hutanis ) from Sumatra and Crocidura musseri from Sulawesi .

Works (selection)

  • P. Vogel: Comparative study of the ontogenesis mode of native Soricidae (Crocidura russula, Sorex araneus and Neomys fodiens) , Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences of the University of Basel, 1972.

literature

  • University of Lausanne October 1973 No. 9: S. 25-26. Short biography (French, online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries from the family and the University of Lausanne , accessed on January 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Regula Tanner: Von Mäusen und Zwei Menschen In: Der Bund from May 13, 2012
  3. ^ Message about the rediscovery of the Etruscan shrew in Switzerland on SRF.TV

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personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2015