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Valerius Geist

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#555

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#981

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Ecology

#39

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#50

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Valerius Geist's Degrees

PhD Zoology University of British Columbia
Masters Zoology University of British Columbia
Bachelors Zoology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Valerius Geist was a Canadian biologist and a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. He was a specialist on the biology, behavior, and social dynamics of North American large mammals , and well respected on his views of Neanderthal people and behavior.

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Valerius Geist's Published Works

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Mountain sheep;: A study in behavior and evolution (1972) (824)
Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology (2000) (514)
On the Relationship of Social Evolution and Ecology in Ungulates (1974) (461)
The Evolution of Horn-Like Organs (1966) (386)
Bergmann's rule is invalid (1987) (350)
The Behavior of Ungulates and its Relation to Management. (1975) (320)
Characteristics of an Early Hominid Scavenging Niche [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (287)
Life Strategies, Human Evolution, Environmental Design (1978) (254)
Cardiac and Behavioral Responses of Mountain Sheep to Human Disturbance (1982) (238)
Factors influencing heart rate in free-ranging bighorn sheep: a physiological approach to the study of wildlife harassment (1979) (151)
On the Rutting Behavior of the Mountain Goat (1964) (130)
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (2019) (118)
Validity of Horn Segment Counts in Aging Bighorn Sheep (1966) (111)
THE EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP HORNS (1966) (103)
On speciation in Ice Age mammals, with special reference to cervids and caprids (1987) (91)
Bighorn sheep in winter: do rams maximize reproductive fitness by spatial and habitat segregation from ewes? (1977) (88)
The Relation of Social Evolution and Dispersal in Ungulates During the Pleistocene, with Emphasis on the old World Deer and the Genus Bison (1971) (86)
Life Strategies, Human Evolution, Environmental Design: Toward a Biological Theory of Health (1979) (84)
How Markets in Wildlife Meat and Parts, and the Sale of Hunting Privileges, Jeopardize Wildlife Conservation (1988) (81)
The role of hunting in North American wildlife conservation (2013) (75)
A Review of Social Behavior of the North American Cervids during the Reproductive Period (1967) (71)
On the Behaviour of the North American Moose (Alces Alces Andersoni Peterson 1950) in British Columbia (1963) (67)
Endangered species and the law (1992) (66)
Sexual dimorphism in the Cervidae and its relation to habitat (1988) (63)
Deer of the World (1998) (61)
On Weapons, Combat, and Ecology (1978) (60)
On fighting strategies in animal combat (1974) (58)
New evidence of high frequency of antler wounding in cervids (1986) (56)
A Comparison of Social Adaptations in Relation to Ecology in Gallinaceous Bird and Ungulate Societies (1977) (53)
Bergmann's rule is invalid: a reply to J. D. Paterson (1990) (42)
On the evolution of the Caprinae (1987) (40)
Phantom Subspecies: The Wood Bison, Bison bison " athabascae " Rhoads 1897 Is Not a Valid Taxon, but an Ecotype (1991) (39)
On Fighting Injuries and Dermal Shields of Mountain Goats (1967) (39)
On the taxonomy of giant sheep (Ovis ammon Linnaeus, 1766) (1991) (39)
Wildlife conservation as wealth (1994) (34)
Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology (1989) (32)
Defining subspecies, invalid taxonomic tools, and the fate of the woodland caribou (2007) (31)
On delayed social and physical maturation in mountain sheep. (1968) (27)
Aggressive Behavior in Deer of the Genus Odocoileus (1961) (24)
Why deer shed antlers (1977) (22)
Bones of contention revisited: did antlers enlarge with sexual selection as a consequence of neonatal security strategies? (1991) (22)
Mountain restoration: Soil and surface wildlife habitat (1992) (22)
How Close Is Too Close (2007) (21)
An Ecological and Behavioural Explanation of Mammalian Characteristics, and their Implication to Therapsid Evolution (1971) (19)
BEHAVIOURAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MOUNTAIN-DWELLING UNGULATES (1987) (19)
Mountain Sheep and Man in the Northern Wilds (1975) (17)
Horn-like Structures as Rank Symbols, Guards and Weapons (1968) (13)
The iron Triangle: Why The Wildlife Society Needs to Take a Position on Economic Growth (2003) (13)
Cardiac responses of bighorn sheep to trapping and radio instrumentation (1986) (11)
Feral Goats in British Columbia (1960) (9)
Commentary Wildlife Habituation: Advances in Understanding and Management Application (2011) (9)
Behaviour in relation to reproduction management and welfare of farm animals (1982) (8)
Heart-rate telemetry of bighorn sheep as a means to investigate disturbances. In: The ecological impacts of outdoor recreation on mountain areas in Europe and North America (Edited by N.G. Bayfield and G.C. Barrow). (1985) (8)
Of reindeer and man, modern and Neanderthal: A creation story founded on a historic perspective on how to conserve wildlife, woodland caribou in particular (2003) (8)
A biotelemetry system for monitoring heart rates in unrestrained ungulates. (1980) (7)
Island Survivors: The Ecology of the Soay Sheep of St. Kilda (1975) (6)
Deer Ranching for Products and Paid Hunting: Threat to Conservation and Biodiversity by Luxury Markets (1992) (6)
A Bighorn Sheep Skull 9280 Years old from British Columbia (1972) (6)
The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae Rhoads) in relation to hypotheses on the origin of the American bison (Bison bison Linnaeus) (1976) (5)
The behavior and ecology of the African buffalo (1984) (5)
Mammals of North America: Temperate and Arctic Regions, by Adrian Forsyth (2000) (5)
Physiological correlates of social behaviour in Bighorn sheep: a field study using electrocardiogram telemetry (2009) (5)
How Genes Communicate With the Environment—The Biology of Inequality (1978) (4)
DO WOLVES BECOME DANGEROUS TO HUMANS ? (2007) (4)
Response to Rogers and Mansfield (2011) and Stringham (2011) (2011) (4)
Perspectives on The Wildlife Society's Economic Growth Policy Statement and the Development Process (2006) (3)
Heart-rate telemetry as a means of investigating duration of disturbance and bioenergetics in free-living ungulates (1990) (3)
Agriculture Versus Bison in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park (1990) (3)
The Carnivorous Herbivore (2010) (3)
Loss of Migratory Traditions Makes the Endangered Patagonian Huemul Deer a Year-Round Refugee in Its Summer Habitat (2022) (2)
Dominance Displays: The Biology of Art, Pride—and Materialism (1978) (2)
On the behaviour and evolution of American mountain sheep (1966) (2)
Forage Characteristics and Bighorn Sheep Phenotype (1990) (2)
Science and Scholarship Abused, and the Counter-Productive “Conservation” of Wolves in North America and Europe (2016) (1)
The Behaviour of Ungulates and Its Relation to Management, Papers from a Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, November 1971 (1975) (1)
Big game in the city: the other side of the coin (2004) (1)
Culture and Its Biological Origins: A View from Ethology, Epigenesis and Design (1994) (1)
Plagues past and present (1997) (1)
Book Review:Mineral Licks, Geophagy, and Biogeochemistry of North American Ungulates. Robert L. Jones, Harold C. Hanson (1986) (1)
Antelope Country: Pronghorns: The Last Americans (2001) (1)
The Human Biology of Circumpolar Populations, edited by F.A. Milan (1980) (1)
Habituation, Taming, Social Dominance Assertions, and “Freedom of the Woods” (2016) (1)
The Spotted Hyena. A Study of Predation and Social Behavior. Hans Kruuk. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972. xvi, 336 pp. + plates. $15. Wildlife Behavior and Ecology (1973) (1)
ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN MOUNTAIN SHEEP: (2021) (1)
The Mammoth Steppe in Relation to the Fate of Modern Humans and Neanderthals (2020) (1)
Book Review:A Territorial Antelope: The Uganda Waterbuck. C. A. Spinage (1983) (0)
Book Review:Mammals: Their Reproductive Biology and Population Ecology J. R. Flowerde (1989) (0)
Book Review:Wildlife Production Systems: Economic Utilisation of Wild Ungulates. Robert J. Hudson, K. R. Drew, L. M. Baskin (1990) (0)
North American Moose, by R.L. Peterson (1980) (0)
Book Review:Perspectives in Ethology. Volume 3: Social Behavior. P. P. G. Bateson, Peter H. Klopfer (1979) (0)
The First Advance to the Glaciers (1978) (0)
Fritz R. Walther Elizabeth Cary Mungall (1984) (0)
Lest we Forget: The Threat of Wildlife Markets to Conservation (1987) (0)
Book reviewGazelles and Their Relatives: A Study in Territorial Behavior, Fritz R. Walther, Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Gerald A. Grau, Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, New Jersey (1983), p. xiii, +239. Price $28.00 (1984) (0)
On the Evolution of Modern Man (1978) (0)
Reassessment of morphology and historical distribution as factors in conservation efforts for the Endangered Patagonian Huemul Deer Hippocamelus bisulcus (Molina 1782) (2012) (0)
Book Review:The Mammalian Herbivore Stomach: Comparative Anatomy, Function and Evolution Peter Langer (1989) (0)
The Ice Ages (1978) (0)
Book Review:Track of the Grizzly. Frank C. Craighead, Jr. (1980) (0)
Health, Professionals, and Creature Comforts (1978) (0)
From Periglacial to Artificial Environments (1978) (0)
Book Review:Ibexes in an African Environment. Ecology and Social System of the Walia Ibex in the Simen Mountains, Ethiopia. B. Nievergelt (1982) (0)
Organism Theory: The Dictates of Genes, the Meanings of Environment (1978) (0)
ALCES ALCES ANDERSONI PETERSON 1950) (2016) (0)
Dall Sheep Disagreements : An Alaskan Management Controversy (2006) (0)
A Brief History of Human-Predator Conflicts and Potent Lessons (2016) (0)
Life Forms And Extinction (1978) (0)
Book Review:Introduction to Ethology. The Biology of Behavior. Jean-Claude Ruwet, Joyce Diamanti (1973) (0)
Book Review:Communication and Expression in Hoofed Mammals. Animal Communication. Fritz R. Walther (1985) (0)
The Natural History of Deer. Rory Putman (1989) (0)
Book Review:The Marsh Lions. The Story of an African Pride. Brian Jackman (1984) (0)
8. Mountain Wildlife (2019) (0)
Perspectives in ethology and advantages of diversity (1983) (0)
Book Review:Megaherbivores. The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology. R. Norman Owen-Smith (1989) (0)
A Biological Theory of Health (1979) (0)
The Homo erectus Stage (1978) (0)
Book Review:Comparative Social Organization of Wild Reindeer in Relation to Food, Mates and Predator Avoidance. Terje Skogland (1990) (0)
Taking the mammoth steppes (1998) (0)
Innocent Killers. Hugo and Jane van Lawick-Goodall. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1971. 222 pp. + plates. $10 (1973) (0)

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