Ulf Hohmann

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Ulf Hohmann (born July 9, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German behavioral researcher whose studies of raccoons made a significant contribution to understanding the social behavior of the animal species and its spread in German-speaking countries.

biography

Ulf Hohmann completed his studies in biology at the Universities of Tübingen and Kiel in 1992 as a qualified biologist. After completing his dissertation at Antal Festetics at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen in 1998, he was chairman of the Society for Wildlife Ecology and Nature Conservation eV (GWN) for several years . In this role he made occasional media appearances as an expert on the increasing urbanization of wildlife . Currently (as of June 2008) he is an employee of the Trippstadt- based research institute for forest ecology and forestry .

Contribution to raccoon research

As part of his dissertation, Ulf Hohmann and several colleagues carried out the first systematic study of the raccoon population in Germany from 1992 to 1998. The telemetric measurement of the movement patterns of the raccoons living in Solling , Lower Saxony , showed that they exhibit variable, gender-specific social behavior. In 1994, the American SD Gehre came to the same conclusion when investigating the social behavior of raccoons in Texas. The earlier assumption that raccoons are solitary animals has thus been refuted.

The study was supplemented by observing the natural behavior of some hand-raised and then released young animals. This work, begun in 1995 by the graduate student Franziska Kalz, was photographed by the animal photographer Ingo Bartussek from the spring of 1996 . After submitting his dissertation in 1999, Ulf Hohmann also carried out the first study outside of North America on urbanized raccoons in the small town of Bad Karlshafen in Hesse . In 2001 Ulf Hohmann finally published the monograph The Raccoon , in which he vividly presented the animal species and his research results. In addition to numerous photographs by Ingo Bartussek, the book also contains a section by the veterinarian Bernhard Böer about the rearing of raccoon pups.

Hohmann's research will be continued by Frank-Uwe Michler, who, after working on the study on urbanized raccoons in Kassel (2001–2003) led by Ulf Hohmann, has been investigating the spread of raccoons in the Müritz National Park since March 2006 for the first time in its eastern German area.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the use of space by the raccoon (Procyon lotor L. 1758) in Solling, southern Lower Saxony, with special consideration of social behavior . Hainholz, Göttingen / Braunschweig 1998, ISBN 3-932622-25-1 (= Hainholz Forest Sciences , Volume 5, also a dissertation at the University of Göttingen 1998).
  • Use of space and social behavior of the raccoon in Central Germany. In: Wildlife Biology. 3/2000, Wildlife Biology & Ecology Information Service, WB-Article 8/9 - Zurich, Switzerland, 16 pp.
  • together with Ingo Bartussek and Bernhard Böer: Der Waschbär , Oertel + Spörer, Reutlingen 2001, 2nd revised edition 2005, ISBN 3-88627-304-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SD Gehre: Raccoon social organization in South Texas . 1994 (American English, dissertation from the University of Missouri-Columbia).
personal data
SURNAME Hohmann, Ulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German behavioral scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart