Papers in honor of Syd Anderson’s contributions to Bolivian and Neotropical Mammalogy

Authors

  • Jorge Salazar Bravo Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University
  • Teresa Tarifa Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, The College of Idaho.

Keywords:

Sydney Anderson

Abstract

The current issue of Therya includes a number of papers honoring the legacy and notable contributions of Dr. Sydney Anderson (1927-2018) to Bolivian and Neotropical mammalogy. “El Doc,†as he was warmly referred to by hordes of Bolivians scientists and students, played a central role in the coming of age of mammalogy in Bolivia. He influenced many aspects of this development, from using his own personal funds to purchase traps and museum cases for the then mammal collection of the Bolivian Museum of Natural History, to serving as a towering example of an unassuming mammalogist who loved and honored his science so much that he enjoyed going out camping and trapping in remote areas of Bolivia for almost three decades from 1964 to 1992, and until he was well into his late 60s.

References

AGUIRRE, L. F., T. TARIFA, R. B. WALLACE, N. BERNAL H., L. SILES, E. ALIAGA-ROSSEL, AND J. SALAZAR-BRAVO. 2019. Lista actualizada y comentada de los mamíferos de Bolivia. Ecología en Bolivia 54:109-149.

ANDERSON, S. 1997. Mammals of Bolivia, taxonomy and distribution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 231: 1-652.

GARDNER, S. L., R. M. TIMM, N. OLDS, AND H. H. GENOWAYS. 2020. Obituary: Sydney Anderson (1927-2018). Journal of Mammalogy 101:900-915.

TARIFA, T. 2014. Historia de la mastozoología en Bolivia. Pp. 69-106 in Historia de la Mastozoología en Latinoamérica, las Guayanas y el Caribe (Ortega, J., J. L. Martínez, and D. G. Tirira, Eds). Editorial Mur-ciélago Blanco y Asociación Ecuatoriana de Mastozoología. Quito, Eduador.

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Published

2020-09-29

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2020)

Section

Editorial

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