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Int J Primatol (2013) 34:644645
DOI 10.1007/s10764-013-9677-9
Klaus Zuberbhler
Received: 26 March 2013 /Accepted: 26 March 2013 /Published online: 23 April 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Death announcements arrive at odd moments. In this case, the news came during the planning of new field experiments with vervets in South Africa; ideas were flowing, enthusiasm brewing: the happy moments of science in the making. Then the phone rang: Hans Kummer, the great scientist, is no more.
Kummer was an ethologist whose pioneering advances with research on primates created some of the fundamental building blocks of behavioral science. His findings have not only revolutionized our understanding of the mechanisms and evolution of social...