author
E. Lendell Cockrum
1920–2009
A longtime University of Arizona zoologist, he wrote accessible, field-tested books on mammals and bats of the American Southwest. His work helped generations of students and naturalists better understand the animals of Arizona and beyond.
2 Audiobooks
Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of North American Microtines
by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, E. Lendell Cockrum
Geographic Variation in Red-backed Mice (Genus Clethrionomys) of the Southern Rocky Mountain Region
by E. Lendell Cockrum, Kenneth Leonard Fitch
About the author
Best known as E. Lendell Cockrum, Elmer Lendell Cockrum was an American zoologist and mammalogist who taught at the University of Arizona. An obituary for him notes that he was known as “Dr. Cockrum” to many students there, where he taught zoology and studied mammals, especially bats.
His published work centered on the mammals of the Southwest. Books and records tied to his name include The Recent Mammals of Arizona and Mammals of Kansas, and later work on bat populations in Arizona, showing a career built around careful field observation and regional natural history.
Cockrum died on November 22, 2009, in Sedona, Arizona. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.