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Valerius Geist (born February 2, 1938 in Nikolajew , then USSR ) is a biologist and professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta , Canada .

Life

Valerius Geist was born in Nikolayev in the Ukrainian coastal area of ​​the Black Sea in 1938. His mother Olga Geist and his father Alexej Antonowich Shutov were both shipbuilding engineers. During the Second World War his father was transferred to Murmansk . In 1943 Olga Geist and her son Valerius came to Wieselburg in Austria as refugees . There it was renamed to the family name of the mother. Afterwards, both were resettled in refugee camps in Waldenburg , Silesia , and then in the Bohemian Forest . From there they fled to Marburg . In 1953 they emigrated to Canada. Geist joined a Canadian rifle regiment, the Regina Rifles, in Regina , capital of Saskatchewan Province . In 1957 he began his zoology studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver .

His wife Renate Geist, née Brall (1937-2014), came from Fulda , but only met her in 1957 as a student at the University of Vancouver. Renate Geist was a biologist and bacteriologist as well as a teacher and professional translator. a. Translated volumes 3 and 10 of the Encyclopedia Grzimek's Animal Life into English . They married on May 20, 1961 and lived together on Vancouver Island , British Columbia until Renate's death on October 13, 2014 . In 1961 he went with Renate into the northern wilderness to study wild sheep and mountain goats. Its closest neighbors were two families of the Tahltan Indians who lived about 60 km away from them. He stayed there for two years while Renate went back to Port Alberni when she was expecting her first daughter. His research there into the behavior of the Canadian stone sheep became the core of his dissertation, which he completed in 1966, on Behavior and Evolution of American Mountain Sheep at the University of British Columbia .

He completed his studies from 1967 to 1968 in the Federal Republic of Germany in Seewiesen at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology under Konrad Lorenz . His main areas of specialization in biology are behavioral biology and social dynamics of large mammals in North America, in particular the evolution of ungulates . Since 1977 Geist has been teaching at the University of Calgary as a founding member and first director of the Environmental Sciences program in the Environmental Design Faculty .

Theses and other activities

At first he supported the keeping of game in ranches as a form of using and protecting the animals at the same time. However, he then warned that the Alberta government's recommendation to do so was both scientifically and economically a mistake. This was confirmed when, due to calamities caused by disease and the collapse of the market for the game of the animals kept there, many ranchers were forced to slaughter their animals and close their businesses.

Geist also proposed theories of the Neanderthals' way of life ; he sees their extinction in the last cold period of the Pleistocene more in connection with the disappearance of the large long-haired mammals, which were their livelihood, and less with the spread of the Cro-Magnon humans . He found injuries on the skeletons of Neanderthals that resemble those of modern rodeo riders. He suspects that the cause was a type of hunting in which hunters jumped on the prey and tried to kill it from above.

Geist sees a danger in the transmission of echinococcus infections from wolves to domestic dogs , which can then lead to cystic echinococcosis in humans . When it comes to the behavior of the wolf towards humans, he describes seven stages from strong shyness and avoidance of human proximity to attacks on humans, which according to the spirit can and have taken place under certain conditions.

Geist is an active member of the Boone and Crockett Club and the International Council for the Conservation of Hunting and Game .

Honors

Geist received the Elk Foundation's Olaus Murie Award in 2003 . In 2004 he received the Wilderness Defenders Award from the Alberta Wilderness Association.

Publications

Book publications

  • Valerius Geist, Dale E. Toweill: Living on the Edge - The Mountais Goat's World . Boone and Crockett - Falcon Pr 2013. ISBN 978-0-940864-65-8
  • Valerius Geist: Life Strategies, Human Evolution, Environmental Design: Toward a Biological Theory of Health . Springer Verlag 1978, new edition 2011. ISBN 978-1-4612-6327-2
  • Valerius spirit; Will N. Graves: Wolves in Russia - Anxiety Through the Ages . Detselig Enterprises 2007. ISBN 978-1-55059-332-7
  • Devra G. Gleiman (Ed.), Valerius Geist (Ed.), Melissa C. McDade (Ed.), Joseph E. Trumpey (Illustrator): Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals . Gale 2003. ISBN 978-0-7876-5788-8 .
  • Valerius Geist: Mountain Sheep and Man in the Northern Wilds . Blackburn Pr. 2002. ISBN 978-1-930665-47-7
  • Valerius Geist: Whitetail Tracks: The Deer's History and Impact in North America by Valerius Geist , Krause Publications 2001.
  • Valerius Geist, Michael H. Francis (Photographer): Moose: Behavior, Ecology, Conservation . Voyager Press Inc. US 1999 ISBN 978-1-55059-332-7
  • Dale E. Toweill, Valerius Geist, Ken Carlson: Return of Loyalty - Wild Sheep of North America . Boone and Crockett Club 1999. ISBN 978-0-940864-33-7
  • Valerius Geist: Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology . Stackpole Books 1998. ISBN 978-0-8117-0496-0
  • Valerius Geist: Records of North American Caribu and Moose . Boone and Crockett Club 1997.
  • Valerius Geist: Buffalo Nation: History and Legend of the North American Bison . Voyageur Press 1996. ISBN 978-0-89658-313-9
  • Bruce L. Smith, Daniel A. Pedrotti, Valerius Geist, Bart W. O'Gara, Jack Reneau, Hayden Lambson, Ruby W. Dahl, Susan Reneau: Records of North American Sheep, Rocky Mountain Goats and Pronghorn . Boone and Crockett Club 1996. ISBN 978-0-940864-28-3
  • Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Valerius Geist: Wildlife Conservation Policy . Brush Education 1995. ISBN 978-1-55059-114-9
  • Rick Riewe; E. Fred Roots, Andrew L. Hamilton, M. Hussein Sadar, John McEwen, Valerius Geist: The Role of Science in Environmental Impacts Assessment: Workshop Proceedings (Occasional Publications Series). CCI Press 1994. ISBN 978-0-919058-88-0
  • Valerius Geist, Michael H. Francis (Photographer): Wild Sheep Country . Northword Press 1993, ISBN 978-1-55971-212-5
  • Valerius Geist, Michael H. Francis: Elk Country (Wildlife Country) , Northword Press 1991. ISBN 978-1-55971-128-9
  • Valerius spirit; Michael H. Francis (photographer): Antelope Country: Pronghorns - The Last Americans , Krause Publications 2001, ISBN 978-0-87349-279-9
  • Valerius Geist, Michael H. Francis: Mule Deer Country . Northword Pr 1990. ISBN 978-1-55971-076-3
  • Michael Hutchin, Valerius Geist: Behavioral Considerations in the Management of Mountain-Dwelling Ungulates . Mountain Res and Devel 1987.
  • Valerius Geist: Mountain Sheep and Man in the Northern Wilds . Conell University Press 1975. New edition: The Blackburn Press 2002. ISBN 978-1-930665-47-7
  • Valerius Geist: Mountain Sheep: A Study in Behavior and Evolution. Wildlife Behavior and Ecology . University of Chicago Press 1972. ISBN 978-0-226-28572-6

Fonts

  • Valerius Geist, Fritz Walther: The Behavior of Ungulates and its relation to management . IUCN Publications new series No. 24, 1974.
  • Wolf Report from biologist Valerius Geist (2006) ( online )
  • Valerius Geist (2007): When do wolves become dangerous for humans? ( online )
  • Valerius Geist (2007): Circumstances leading to wolf attacks on people (online )
  • Valerius Geist (2009): Wolves - When Ignorance Is Bliss ( online )
  • Valerius Geist (2010): Comments on the report “Ensuring a Future for Canada's Grizzly Bears” ( digitized version )
  • Rebuttal: Dr. Valerius Geist Responds To Newsweek Article On Trophy Hunting (2010) ( online )
  • Valerius Geist: Wolves on Vancouver Island ( digitized version )
  • Valerius Geist: Can large carnivores be kept in an inhabited cultural landscape? In: Contributions to hunting and game research Volume 39, 2014 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Renate Anna Gertrude Ida (Brall) GEIST. In: Yates Memorial Services. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  2. Wildlife Scientist Rich Devotes Life to Educating the Public. In: Alberta Wilderness Association , October 28, 2004, accessed July 4, 2019.
  3. Valerius Geist: On the behavior and evolution of American mountain sheep In: University of British Columbia , October 4, 1966, accessed July 4, 2019.
  4. Valerius Geist: Buffalo Nations. Voyageur Press, 1996. ISBN 978-1-61060-360-7 , pp. 19–31 ( preview in Google book search)
  5. ^ Andy Marshall: Wildlife Scientist Devotes Rich Life to Educating the Public. (PDF) In: Alberta Wilderness Association. October 9, 2004, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  6. Valerius Geist: The Neanderthal Paradigm. In: cogweb.ucla.edu. April 19, 2000, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  7. Some information for people in areas where wolves have become common. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  8. ^ Archives for Disease / Echinococcus multilocularis. In: Wolf Education International. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  9. Valerius Geist: When do wolves become dangerous to humans? In: Wolf Education International. August 19, 2014, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  10. Valerius Geist: Wolves: When Ignorance Is Bliss. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  11. Boone and Crockett Club: Valerius Spirit. 2008, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  12. ^ Alberta Wilderness Defenders Awards. In: Alberta Wilderness Association. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .