Raymond B. Cowles

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According to Wikipedia, Raymond Bridgman Cowles was a herpetologist and professor at University of California, Los Angeles. Born in the British Colony of Natal to American missionary parents, he emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. He attended Pomona College as an undergrad and earned his PhD at Cornell University under Albert Hazen Wright. He is known for his research on desert ecology and reptile thermoregulation, as well as his popular books on environmental conservation. Cowles died of a heart attack in 1975 at the age of 79. An obituary called him one of America's first ecologists and conservationists.

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Raymond B. Cowles's Published Works

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A preliminary study of the thermal requirements of desert reptiles. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 83, article 5 (1944) (943)
Olfaction in Rattlesnakes (1958) (108)
Aspects of Thermoregulation in Bats (1951) (87)
Physiology of an Infrared Receptor: The Facial Pit of Pit Vipers. (1952) (87)
POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF DERMAL TEMPERATURE REGULATION (1958) (75)
Temperature tolerances in the American alligator and their bearing on the habits, evolution, and extinction of the dinosaurs. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 86, article 7 (1946) (68)
Hyperthermia, Aspermia, Mutation Rates and Evolution (1965) (63)
Observations on the Winter Activities of Desert Reptiles (1941) (60)
Additional Implications of Reptilian Sensitivity to High Temperatures (1940) (43)
Effect of Temperature on Antibody Synthesis in the Reptile, Dipsosaurus dorsalis. ∗ (1959) (43)
Moisture loss in relation to habitat selection in some Floridian reptiles. American Museum novitates ; no. 1358 (1947) (38)
A Cooling Mechanism of the Texas Nighthawk (1951) (35)
Black pigmentation: adaptation for concealment or heat conservation? (1967) (32)
The Sterilizing Effect of High Temperature on the Male Germ-Plasm of the Yucca Night Lizard, Xantusia vigilis (1945) (32)
Semantics in Biothermal Studies (1962) (31)
Surface-Mass Ratio, Paleoclimate and Heat Sterility (1945) (29)
The life history of Varanus niloticus (Linnaeus) as observed in Natal, South Africa (26)
Some Ecological Factors Bearing on the Origin and Evolution of Pigment in the Human Skin (1959) (23)
Vascular Changes in the Wings of Bats. (1947) (23)
Sidewinding Locomotion in Snakes (1956) (22)
Heat-Induced Sterility and Its Possible Bearing on Evolution (1945) (21)
POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS OF REPTILIAN THERMAL TOLERANCE. (1939) (19)
Fur and feathers; a response to falling temperature. (1946) (16)
THE EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SCROTUM (1958) (16)
A Possible Avian Analogue of the Scrotum. (1946) (14)
Unusual Defense Postures Assumed by Rattlesnakes (1938) (14)
Rates of Temperature Increase in the Dinosaurs (1947) (11)
Parturition in the Yucca Night Lizard (1944) (11)
Evidence of Venom in Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus (1941) (11)
THE LIFE HISTORY OF VARANUS NILOTICUS. (1928) (11)
The Life History of Scopus Umbretta Bannermani C. Grant in Natal South Africa (1930) (10)
Notes on the Ecology and Breeding Habits of the Desert Minnow, Cyprinodon macularius Baird and Girard (1934) (8)
Studies on Thermal Sedation in Suppression of the Symptoms of Tetanus Toxin (1947) (6)
TEMPERATURE INDUCED STERILITY AND EVOLUTION. (1945) (6)
Observations on the California Lyre Snake, Trimorphodon vandenburghi Klauber, with Notes on the Effectiveness of Its Venom (1935) (6)
The life history of Varanus niloticus as observed in Natal, South Africa (1930) (6)
Desert Journal: A Naturalist Reflects on Arid California (1977) (5)
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE TETRAPODS (1958) (5)
Raymond B. Cowles and the Biology of Temperature in Reptiles (1984) (5)
Note on the Arboreal Feeding Habits of the Desert Iguana (1946) (4)
Notes on the Mammalian Fauna of Umzumbe Valley. Natal, South Africa (1936) (3)
THE SAN DIEGAN ALLIGATOR LIZARD AND THE BLACK WIDOW SPIDER. (1937) (3)
Missiles, Clay Pots and Mortality Rates in Primitive Man (1963) (3)
Desert Journal: Reflections of a Naturalist (1977) (2)
Zulu Journal, Field Notes of a Naturalist in South Africa (1960) (2)
Notes on the Nesting of the African Green Heron (Butorides atricapilla) in Natal (1930) (2)
Observations on the Spot-Backed Weaver, (Ploceus spilonotus Vig.) (1936) (2)
Observations on the Amethyst Sunbird, Chalcomitra amethystina amethystina (Shaw) (1936) (2)
Some of the Activities of the Sidewinder (1945) (2)
Avian Habitats in the Thorn-Bush Areas of Natal (1937) (1)
Swimming Ability of the Alligator Lizard (1946) (1)
Notes on the Life History of Pituophis catenifer deserticola (Stejneger) (1935) (1)
Populations of Xantusia vigilis Threatened with Extermination (1952) (1)
Loye Holmes Miller: The Interpretive Naturalist (1972) (1)
Casual Notes on the Poikilothermous Vertebrates of the Umzumbe Valley, Natal, South Africa (1936) (1)
Fur and Feathers: A Response to Falling Temperature? (1946) (1)
Physiology of an Infrared Receptor: The Facial Pit of Pit Vipers (1952) (0)
The interpretive naturalist (1967) (0)
Semantic Inadequacy of Some Thermal Terms (1947) (0)

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