Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (born 13 August 1946) is a British

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

known for his comparative studies of the

behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures. Behavioral ecology emerged from ethology after Niko Tinbergen outlined four questions to address when ...

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

s, particularly

red deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of wes ...

and

meerkat MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilom ...

s.University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS

Education

Clutton-Brock was educated at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

where he was awarded a PhD in 1972.

Career and research

As of 2008, he is the Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and head of the Large Animal Research Group at the Department of Zoology of the

, and a fellow of

Magdalene College Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

, Cambridge. He also holds extraordinary professorships in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal Research Institute of the

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was ...

, South Africa. Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in

primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

s. Much of his recent work focuses on three long-term studies: of

Red Deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of wes ...

on the Scottish island of

Rùm Rùm (), a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum (), is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland. For much of the 20th century the name became Rhum, a spelling invented by the former owner, Sir ...

, of

Soay sheep The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') descended from a population of feral sheep on the island of Soay in the St Kilda Archipelago, about from the Western Isles of Scotland. It is one of the Northern European short-t ...

on St Kilda, and of

s in the southern

Kalahari The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for , covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal de ...

. He is one of the founders of the

Kalahari Meerkat Project The Kalahari Meerkat Project, or KMP, is a long term research project focused on studying the evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of cooperative behaviors in meerkats. The secondary aims of the project are to determine what factors affe ...

, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme ''

Meerkat Manor ''Meerkat Manor'' is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films that premiered in September 2005. Originally broadcast on Animal Planet International for four series, until its cancellation in August 2008, the program ...

''.

Books

* ''Readings in Sociobiology''. Editor with

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. (1978, W.H.Freeman & Company; ) * ''Red Deer: Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes''. With F. E. Guinness and S. D. Albon. (1982, University Of Chicago Press; ) * ''Life Histories in Comparative Perspective''. With P.H. Harvey and R.D. Martin, R.D. (1987) In ''Primate Societies''. Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T. (eds). Chicago & London:University of Chicago Press. pp. 181–196 * ''Rhum: The Natural History of an Island (Edinburgh Island Biology)''. Editor with M. E. Ball. (1987, Edinburgh University Press; ) * ''Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems'' (Editor, 1990, University Of Chicago Press; ) * ''The Evolution of Parental Care'' (1991, Princeton University Press; ) * ''Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in SouthEast Asia''. Editor with David M. G. Newbery and Ghillean T. Prance. (2000, World Scientific Publishing Company; ) * ''Wildlife Population Growth Rates''. Editor with R. M. Sibly and J. Hone. (2003, Cambridge University Press; ) * ''Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population''. Editor with Josephine Pemberton. (2004, Cambridge University Press; ) * ''Meerkat Manor – The Story of Flower of the Kalahari'' (2007, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ) * ''Mammal Societies'' (2016, Wiley-Blackwell; )

Reviews

* *

Articles

* * * * * * Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (August 2013). "The evolution of social monogamy in mammals". ''Science.''341: 526-530
doi:10.1126/science.1238677

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

in 1987. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. He won the 1997

Frink Medal The Frink Medal for British Zoologists is awarded by the Zoological Society of London "For significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology." It consists of a bronze plaque (76 by 83 millimetres), de ...

of the

Zoological Society of London The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained the London Zoo, and since 1931 Whipsnade Park. History On 29 ...

. In 2012, he was awarded the

Darwin Medal The Darwin Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "distinction in evolution, biological diversity and developmental, population and organismal biology". In 1885, International Darwin Memorial Fund was transferred to the ...

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.

References

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