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Zool 408: History
History of Mammology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Paintings in France 30,000 to 32,000 years ago | Chauvet Cave paintings of horses, bison, lion and rhinos |
| Heavily populated by Bowhead whales | fjords |
| Bowhead whales were hunted for what? | baleen (plastic like) and blubber (for oil) |
| Painter and printmaker in 15th and 16th century | Albrechl Durer |
| Natural history expansion | in 1600's as Europeans brought specimens and descriptions of new species |
| European explorers exploited what resources? | Atlantic cod and whales |
| 'father of modern taxonomy' | Carl von Linne (Carolus Linnaeus) |
| Formal rules for systematic names | International Congress of Zoologists |
| Binomial nomenclature rules | italicized Latin names, genus name capitalized, species name lower case |
| Nar | old Norse for corpse |
| Whal | old Norse for whale |
| Common name for Narwhal in Norse | corpse whale |
| Monodon monoceros | Greek for 'one-tooth, one-horn' |
| Erasmus Darwin | diversity of living organisms influenced by environment |
| 'Essay on the Principle of Population' | Thomas Malthus |
| Charles Lyell | 'Principles of Geology' |
| 'father of modern geology' | Charles Lyell |
| Uniformitarianism | processes that influenced physical world are still active in the present |
| 'father of biogeography' | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| 'Nomenclator Zoologicus' and opponent of evolution | Louis Agassiz |
| Sir John Richardson and Sir John Franklin | traveled to Arctic seeking Northwest Passage, published 'Fauna Boreali Americana 1820' |
| 'General history of quadrapeds' | Thomas Bewick |
| 'The viviparous quadrupeds of North America' | John James Audubon |
| Foundation work of mammology | 'Introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct' |
| 1919 | establishment of American Society of Mammalogists |
| Influential paleontologist who studied Mesozoic, Paleocene and South American mammals | George Gaylord Simpson |
| New issues concerning mammalogy | harvest management, livestock predation, crop depredation, over-abundant wildlife, disease transmission |
| possy | strong smelling herbs and plants (protection from black death) |
| ashes | sneezing (classic symptom of black death) |
| 1947 | P.M. Mackenzie King creates Canadian Wildlife Service |
| Ecological research on Arctic fox, musl ox, grizzly + polar bears | 'The migratory barren-ground caribou of Canada' |
| A.W. Banfield | 'The mammals of Canada' 1974 |
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