Ángel Cabrera (19 February 1879 – 8 July 1960) was a Spanish

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 kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and d ...

. He was born in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

and studied at the Universidad Central, Madrid (now part of the

Universidad Complutense de Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university lo ...

). He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

. In 1907, he proposed that the Iberian wolf was a separate subspecies, which he named ''Canis lupus signatus''. Genera mammalium (6260709968)

In 1925 Cabrera went to

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

and remained there for the rest of his life. He was head of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museo de La Plata, and made collecting trips to

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and Catamarca. In Patagonia he discovered the first Jurassic dinosaur of South America; he thus began a series of discoveries in this region, one of the richest in dinosaur remains. He supervised the doctoral work of some of the first palaeontologists of South America, including Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez and Dolores López Aranguren. His son

Ángel Lulio Cabrera Ángel Lulio Cabrera (born 19 October 1908 in Madrid, Spain – died 8 July 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentinian botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. ...

was a distinguished Argentinian botanist.

Popularization

Cabrera wrote about 27 books. He was very active in disseminating ideas of zoology to the non-specialist general public. Among these works can be mentioned ''Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur'' (''Catalogue of South American Mammals''), ''Zoología pintoresca'' (''Picturesque Zoology''), ''Historia de Leones'' (''Story of Lions'') and ''Los mamíferos extinguidos'' (''Extinct Mammals''), all in language accessible to non-specialist readers.

References

Biography (in Spanish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabrera, Angel 1879 births 1960 deaths People from Madrid Spanish zoologists Taxa named by Ángel Cabrera Spanish emigrants to Argentina