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

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

. He was born in

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and studied at the Universidad Central, Madrid (now part of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to

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. In 1907, he proposed that the Iberian wolf was a separate subspecies, which he named ''Canis lupus signatus''. In 1925 Cabrera went to

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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 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.

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Biography (in Spanish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabrera, Angel 1879 births 1960 deaths Scientists from Madrid Spanish zoologists Spanish naturalists Taxa named by Ángel Cabrera Spanish emigrants to Argentina People associated with the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales