Louis Lavauden

Louis Lavauden (actually Adrien Joseph Louis Lavauden; born June 19, 1881 in Grenoble, † September 1, 1935 in Anjou, Isere ) was a French zoologist and forest scientists.

Life

After his studies at the Institute agronomique et de l' Ecole forestière in Nancy worked Lavauden in the administration of water and forests. As a zoologist, he made excursions to the Dauphiné region, which he the book Catalogue des oiseaux du Dauphiné contenant les dans les départements espèces observées de l' Isère, de la Drôme des Hautes -Alpes et des environs de Lyon immédiats published 1911. In this work, it was not just about the avifauna in the Dauphiné, but also to lynx, ibex and bearded vultures in the Alps.

1912 and 1913 he made ​​several trips to North Africa, especially Algeria and Tunisia, from where he brought back numerous animal preparations for the Muséum d' histoire naturelle de Grenoble. After the First World War, where he served as an infantry officer, he settled in Tunis and was appointed forest inspector. In the following years he wrote several works on the Tunisian avifauna. In 1925 he accompanied Colonel Victor -Paul Courtot on a Sahara expedition of Tunis on Lake Chad to Cotonou in Dahomey.

From 1928 to 1931 he was stationed as head of the Forest Service to Madagascar, where he conducted numerous zoological studies and zoological specimens, especially of large lemurs amassed. He then traveled through Central Africa, before he taught as a professor of practical and general zoology in the School of Agriculture in Paris the last two years of his life. Lavauden described several new Tiertaxa, including the Perrier 's sifaka ( Propithecus perrieri ), the Ambrerötel ( monticola sharpei erythronotus ) and the westmadagassischen subspecies of Falanuks ( Eupleres goudotii major), the Great Vasapapageis ( Coracopsis vasa drouhardi ) and the Schopfibis ( Lophotibis cristata urschi ).

Works (selection)

  • Oiseaux, 1924
  • La Chasse et la faune cynègètique en Tunisie, 1924
  • Les Vertebres du Sahara: Elements de zoology saharienne, 1926
  • Le Problème forestier colonial. Avec 7 photographies et hors texte planches 3, 1931
  • Le problème colonial forestier, 1931
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