Clarence Ray Carpenter

Clarence Ray Carpenter
Born	1905 Lincoln County, North Carolina
Died	March 1, 1975(1975-03-01) Athens, Georgia
Citizenship	American
Nationality	American
Fields	Primatology
Institutions	New Haven Medical School, Yale University. Bard College, Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of Tropical Medicine, Puerto Rico. Yerkes Primate Center, University of Georgia. Pennsylvania State University.
Alma mater	B.S. and M.S. Duke University. PhD. Stanford University.
Doctoral advisor	Robert M. Yerkes
Known for	Cayo Santiago Rhesus Colony. Film & video of primate behavior.

Clarence Ray Carpenter (usually credited as C. R. Carpenter) (1905 – March 1, 1975) was an American primatologist who was one of the first scientific investigators to film and videotape the behavior of primates in their natural environments.

Carpenter earned his Bachelor of Science (1928) and Master of Science (1929) degrees at Duke University and his Ph.D. (1932) at Stanford University.

From 1931 to 1934, Carpenter conducted field research on the natural behavior of primates under the sponsorship of Yale University professor Robert M. Yerkes. According to Irven DeVore, "for the succeeding thirty years almost all of the accurate information available on the behavior of monkeys and apes living in natural environments was the result of Carpenter's research and writing."

Books

• Behavioral Regulators of Behavior in Primates. C. R. Carpenter, ed. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1974. Hardcover: ISBN 0-838-71099-9, ISBN 978-0-83871-099-9.

Films

• C.R. Carpenter Primate Studies Series Pennsylvania State University

Papers

• "Behavior and Social Relations of the Howling Monkey," Comparative Psychology Monographs, Johns Hopkins University, May, 1934.
• "Field Study in Siam of the Behavior and social Relations of the Gibbon," Comparative Psychology Monographs, Johns Hopkins University, December, 1940.
• "Societies of Monkeys and Apes," Biological Symposia, v. 8, 1942.
• "Evolutionary interpretation of human behavior," Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
• "Social Behavior of the Primates," Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, v. 34, March, 1950.

References

• Biographical sketch at Primate Info Net.

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Name	Carpenter, Clarence Ray
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Date of birth
Place of birth	Lincoln County, North Carolina
Date of death	March 1, 1975
Place of death	Athens, Georgia