How does a lifetime of analysis lay the muse for what we all know concerning the world’s prime predators?
Head to head with a 182-pound male mountain lion, Maurice Hornocker didn’t shirk. As a substitute, he greeted “Rex” like an previous buddy passing on the street.
Hornocker, the 2024 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award winner, is extensively thought of the godfather of carnivore analysis.
A TWS member since 1959, Hornocker helped pioneer the follow of marking particular person animals and had a hand within the first life historical past research of many massive carnivores. From grizzlies (Ursus arctos horribilis) and cougars (Puma concolor), to bobcats (Lynx rufus) and river otters (Lontra canadensis), Hornocker has seen all of it. His tales reveal the elemental base for which a lot of the wildlife career now works off.
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