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Donald W. Janes
A field biologist whose surviving published work offers a close, practical look at animal behavior in the Kansas landscape. Best known for a careful study of eastern cottontails, he wrote in a clear, observation-driven style that still feels accessible.
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Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas
by Donald W. Janes
About the author
Donald W. Janes is known for Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas, a zoological study published in 1959 by the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. The work follows the movements and habitat use of cottontails on a Kansas study area and reflects a patient, field-based approach to natural history.
Archival records at the Kansas Historical Society also show Janes gathered research material connected to Kansas history, including material related to Nathaniel Stickney Goss. Taken together, the available sources suggest a researcher with strong ties to Kansas scholarship, though detailed biographical information about his life and career is limited in the sources I could confirm.
Because so little reliable biographical detail was readily available, this profile focuses on the published and archival record that can be verified. That makes Janes a somewhat mysterious figure, but his work still stands as a useful snapshot of mid-20th-century wildlife research.