Ángel Cabrera (19 February 1879 – 8 July 1960) was a Spanish zoologist. He was born in Madrid and studied at the

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, Madrid (now part of the

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

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and remained there for the rest of his life. He was head of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the

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, and made collecting trips to Patagonia 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.

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