It is due in large part to Rettenmeyer’s tireless tracking of army ants through all manner of tangled tropical jungle, for months on end, that we know as much as we do about those creatures. We’ve lost a real giant of myrmecology.
Carl Rettenmeyer, 1931-2009
April 14, 2009 by myrmecos
Posted in Ants, Science | Tagged myrmecology, obituary | 3 Comments
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[…] April 16, 2009 by myrmecos I never met Carl Rettenmeyer. […]
I never heard of him, but reading the http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=143 link about his Army Ants DVD. Then, I remember.
[…] late army ant biologist Carl Rettenmeyer (1931-2009) spent much of his career documenting the associates of this tropical species, found in forests […]