Tim Clutton-Brock

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Tim Clutton-Brock

Behavioural ecology
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisFeeding and ranging behaviour of the red colobus monkey (1973)
Doctoral advisorRobert Hinde
Websitewww.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/tim-clutton-brock

Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock

zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals,[1] particularly red deer and meerkats.[2][3]

Education

Clutton-Brock was educated at the

PhD in 1972.[3]

Career and research

As of 2008, he is the Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,[4] and head of the Large Animal Research Group at the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge,[2] and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[5] He also holds extraordinary professorships in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.[6]

Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in

Kalahari.[4] He is one of the founders of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme Meerkat Manor.[8]
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Books

Reviews

Articles

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.[7] He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher.[10] He won the 1997 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London.

In 2012, he was awarded the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society for his work on the diversity of animal societies and demonstration of their effects on the evolution of reproductive strategies, and the operation of selection and the dynamics of populations.[11]

References

  1. S2CID 4374045. Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS Archived 19 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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  4. ^ a b "Tim Clutton-Brock". Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
  5. ^ "Fellows by Subject". Magdalene College, Cambridge. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  6. ^ "Faculties of the University of Pretoria" (PDF). University of Pretoria. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  7. ^ a b Anon (1993). "Professor Timothy Clutton-Brock FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)

  8. IMDb
  9. ^ "Meerkats: The Zoological Jackpot". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
  10. ^ "ISIHighlyCited.com: Clutton-Brock, Timothy H." Thomson Scientific. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  11. ^ "Darwin Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 21 December 2012.