Edmund Jaeger

Edmund C. Jaeger (1887-1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology. He was born in Nebraska and moved to California in 1906. He was the first to document a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the Common Poorwill. He wrote numerous technical and popular works, including:
* "Denizens of the desert"
* "Denizens of the Mountains"
* "The California Deserts"
* "A Naturalist's Death Valley"
* "Our Desert Neighbors"
* "Desert Wild Flowers"
* "The Mountain Trees of Southern California "
* "Introduction to the Natural History of Southern California "
* "Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms "
* " Source-Book of Medical Terms"
* "A dictionary of Greek and Latin : combining forms used in zoological names "

External links

* [http://www.jaeger.ws/ Edmund Jaeger site]
* [http://www.jaeger.ws/museum/index.html Riverside (California) Metropolitan Museum]