He said “I’ll admit, I’m a bit of a shit”ĭr Dickerman was right. It became a “claus celebre” (spelling), and my next two notes were rejected out-of-hand two fellow graduate students sent the editor the limerick from which I got the name: As we stopped, another ran out from the side of the road and laid down and seemingly copulated with it! I published this observation in Journal of Mammalogy, naming it Davian Behavior. The history of this behavior began when on 26 April 1959, I was driving down a dirt road, and stopped to look at a dead 13-striped ground squirrel ( Citellus tridecimlineatus) lying dead in the middle of the road. ” … neither you nor the “Board of Governors” at Harvard, knew of the very scattered, but plentiful, American literature on “Davian Behaviour”. He had noticed my paper, and responded to it on 23 March 2009: I did not know him personally, but we had a short and memorable e-mail correspondence about my Ig Nobel winning paper ‘ The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard’. He is depicted here with a Helmeted Guineafowl (in South Africa, 2011) that soon became specimen RWD #27413 in his personal catalogue.Īs noted in a biographical sketch that introduced a special volume of Western Birds (43 ) honoring his contribution to biology, Bob Dickerman had ‘… a naturalist’s eye and keenly interested in the world around him’. Dickerman was the biologist who gave necrophilia a good name.Ĭhiefly known as a specimen-based ornithologist and tireless collector of scientific specimens, Bob Dickerman has enriched the collections of natural history museums, from Alaska to New Mexico, and described dozens of new subspecies of mostly Mexican birds. ‘ Ornithology Exchange’ reported the death of Dr.
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