Velizar Simeonovski

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Velizar Simeonovski ( Bulgarian Велизар Симеоновски ; born February 14, 1968 in Borovan , Wraza Oblast , Bulgaria ) is an animal illustrator and zoologist from Bulgaria living in the United States . His main interests are paleo art , the scientific illustration and artistic reconstruction of extinct animal species as well as the visualization of primeval landscapes. Simeonovski uses computer programs to create his drawings. He is married and has two sons. Since 2003 he has worked for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago , Illinois .

Life

In 1987 Simeonovski graduated from the St.Luka National High School for Applied Arts in Sofia. From 1989 to 1995 he studied vertebrate zoology at the University of Sofia , where he graduated with a Master of Science thesis on the aspects of wild cats and feral domestic cats .

Simeonovski's scientific interests focus on reconstructing the external properties of fossil mammals, including coat hair, coat color and pattern, the scalp hair, manes and neck lobes. He also studies the anatomy, development, heredity, evolution, adaptive properties and variation of mammals. He also uses prehistoric and ancient art as sources for zoological information.

In 2010 Simeonovski contributed to the artistic design of the exhibition Mammoths and mastodons: titans of the Ice Age at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and in 2011 he was an illustrator for Les petits mammifères de Madagascar: guide de leur distribution, biologie et identification von Voahangy Soarimalala and Steven M. Goodman involved. In 2014, together with William L. Jungers and Steven M. Goodman, he designed the exhibition Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the Island's Past about the fossil and subfossil fauna of Madagascar in the Field Museum of Natural History, for which a book of the same name was published. In 2016, Simeonovski illustrated the book Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys: The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America by Darin A. Croft about the fossil mammal fauna of the Cenozoic era in South America. In the same year he was part of the team of illustrators for The Mammals of Luzon Island. Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna by Lawrence R. Heaney , Danilo S. Balete, and Eric A. Rickart.

Reconstruction of Panthera zdanskyi , illustrated by Velizar Simeonovski for the journal PLoS ONE in 2011

Simeonovski also made illustrations and artistic reconstructions for initial scientific descriptions , including 2011 for Panthera zdanskyi , in the same year for Tsingyralle , 2015 for Yoshi garevskii and 2016 for Calciavis grandei . In 2011, Lawrence R. Heaney and his team described seven new species of the Apomys mouse genus from the Philippine islands of Luzon and Mindoro, for which Simeonovski provided the illustrations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ji H. Mazák, Per Christiansen and Andrew C. Kitchener: Oldest Known Pantherine Skull and Evolution of the Tiger . In: PLoS ONE . 6, No. 10, 2011, p. E25483. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0025483 .
  2. ↑ Steven Michael Goodman, Marie Jeanne Raherilalao, Nicholas Lewis Block: Patterns of morphological and genetic variation in the Mentocrex kioloides complex (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from Madagascar, with the description of a new species . In: Zootaxa . tape 2776 , 2011, pp. 49–60 ( online (PDF; 370 kB) [accessed November 12, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Nikolai Spassov, Denis Geraas: A New Felid from the Late Miocene of the Balkans and the Contents of the Genus Metailurus Zdansky, 1924 (Carnivora, Felidae) . In: Journal of Mammalian Evolution . 22, No. 1, 2015, pp. 45–56. doi : 10.1007 / s10914-014-9266-5 .
  4. ↑ Sterling J. Nesbitt, Julia A. Clarke: The anatomy and taxonomy of the exquisitely preserved Green River Formation (early Eocene) lithornithids (Aves) and the relationships of Lithornithidae . In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . No. 406, 2016, pp. 1–93. doi : 10.5531 / sd.sp.25 .
  5. ↑ Laurence R. Heaney, Danilo S. Balete, Eric A. Rickart, Phillip A. Alviola, Mariano Roy M. Duya, Melizar V. Duya, M. Josefa Veluz, Lawren VandeVrede and Scott J. Steppan: Seven New Species and a New Subgenus of Forest Mice (Rodentia: Muridae: Apomys) from Luzon Island . In: Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences . No. 2, 2011, pp. 1-60. doi : 10.3158 / 2158-5520-2.1.1 .
personal data
SURNAME Simeonovski, Velizar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Симеоновски, Велизар (Bulgarian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian animal illustrator and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Borovan , Wraza Oblast , Bulgaria