author
Henry W. Setzer
A Smithsonian mammalogist and field naturalist, he spent decades studying mammals and helping build one of the major museum research collections in the United States. His published work ranges from kangaroo rats and owls to African and Middle Eastern mammals, making his writing especially appealing to listeners who enjoy natural history.
2 Audiobooks
The Postnatal Development of Two Broods of Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus)
by Donald Frederick Hoffmeister, Henry W. Setzer
Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii KU. Vol 1 No 23
by Henry W. Setzer
About the author
Born in 1916 and died in 1992, Henry W. Setzer was an American zoologist best known for his work on mammals. He earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Utah and later completed a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Kansas. During World War II he served in the Army, then moved to Washington, D.C., where he joined the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in 1948.
At the Smithsonian, Setzer advanced from assistant curator to curator in the Division of Mammals. He also conceived and directed the African Mammal Project, a large collecting and research effort that brought tens of thousands of specimens into the museum's holdings. His field work took him to places including Costa Rica, Libya, and other parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Setzer wrote and co-wrote scientific studies on a wide range of animals, from kangaroo rats and great horned owls to rodents and other mammals from Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, and beyond. For readers and listeners, that gives his work a clear strength: it comes from a researcher with deep firsthand experience in the field as well as years of museum scholarship.