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,Pennsylvania State University Special Collections Library: ''Biographical Note, Clarence Ray Carpenter papers, 1918-1976'', PSUA 149, http://www.libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/149.htm, accessed 17 Nov 2013 Carpenter earned his

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(1928) and

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(1929) degrees at

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and his

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(1932) degree at

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. From 1931 to 1934, Carpenter conducted field research on the natural behavior of primates under the sponsorship of

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professor

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, "for the succeeding thirty years almost all of the accurate information available on the behavior of monkeys and apes living in natural environments was the result of Carpenter's research and writing."

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, ''Hylobates lar carpenteri'', is named in his honor.Groves, Colin P. 1968. A new subspecies of white-handed gibbon from northern Thailand, ''Hylobates lar carpenteri'' new subspecies. ''Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington'', 81:625-628; 628. URL: https://archive.org/details/biostor-82270, accessed 8 Jan 2018.

Books

* ''Behavioral Regulators of Behavior in Primates''. C. R. Carpenter, ed.

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Films

C.R. Carpenter Primate Studies Series

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Papers

* "Behavior and Social Relations of the Howling Monkey," Comparative Psychology

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, May, 1934. * "Field Study in Siam of the Behavior and social Relations of the Gibbon," Comparative Psychology Monographs, Johns Hopkins University, December, 1940. * "Societies of Monkeys and Apes," Biological Symposia, v. 8, 1942. * "Evolutionary interpretation of human behavior," Transactions of the

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, 1942. * "Social Behavior of the Primates," '' Colloques internationaux du

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,'' v. 34, March, 1950.

References

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