William Frank Harding Ansell

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William Frank Harding Ansell (born June 13, 1923 in Devoran , Truro , Cornwall , England , † December 12, 1996 in Penzance , Cornwall, England) was a British mammal loge . His research focus was on mammals in southeast Africa.

Life

Ansell was the son of Frank Harding and Henrietta Ansell. He was educated at Penzance County School and St. Luke's College in Exeter , where he received his teaching diploma in 1942. At the age of 19 he joined the British Army , where he took part in the Burma campaign in the second half of World War II . He fought in the unit of the 3rd Gurkha Rifles on the side of the Karen people. After being promoted to captain, he served with Force 136 and was involved in supplies. At the end of the war he stayed in Burma with the army for several months. During this time he had the opportunity to do zoological field work. These activities led to his first publication in 1947 on the status of the Northern Sumatran rhinoceros in Burma. From 1947 to 1974 he was a game warden in the Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (since 1964 Zambia ). In 1960 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool. PhD. In 1963 he founded the wildlife magazine Puku together with the ornithologist Constantine Walter Benson .

In 1958 Ansell wrote the first scientific description of the Cansdales swamp rat ( Malacomys cansdalei ) from Ghana . During the 1960s, Ansell studied the lychee antelope in south-central Africa. In 1969 he described the subspecies Tragelaphus strepsiceros burlacei of the Cape Great Kudu .

Ansell died of complications from cancer on December 12, 1996 at West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance at the age of 73.

Dedication names

After Ansell are Ansell Africa wood mouse ( Hylomyscus anselli ), Ansell Graumull ( Fukomys anselli ), Ansell's Shrew ( Crocidura ansellorum ), Ansell Epaulettenflughund ( Epomophorus anselli ) and the Upemba Litchi ( Kobus leche anselli named). In 1960 Charles Matthew Newton White (1914–1978) named the subspecies Cisticola textrix anselli of the Pinkpink Cistus singer in honor of William Frank Harding Ansell.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mammals of Northern Rhodesia - A Revised Check List with Keys, Notes on Distribution, Range Maps, and Summaries of Breeding and Ecological Data , 1960
  • Order Artiodactyla. Pp. 1-84 in The Mammals of Africa: An Identification Manual , J. Meester, HW Setzer (eds.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1972
  • Some Mammals from Zambia and Adjacent Countries , 1974
  • The Mammals of Zambia , 1978
  • Mammals of Malawi: An Annotated Check List and Atlas , 1988
  • African Mammals, 1938-88 , 1989

literature

  • RJ Dowsett: Obituary-Ansell, WFH (1923-1996) , Mammalia, 61 (4), 1997, pp. 635-637
  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals JHU Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-80189-304-9 : p. 14

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WFH Ansell: A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2), 1947, pp. 249-276
  2. ^ WFH Ansell: Four new African rodents, Annals and Magazine of Natural History : Series 13, 1: 5, 1958, pp. 337-344. doi : 10.1080 / 00222935808650958
personal data
SURNAME Ansell, William Frank Harding
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mammal loge
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Devoran , Truro , Cornwall , England
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1996
Place of death Penzance , Cornwall , England