Achille Urbain
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Achille Joseph Urbain was a French
biologist
and director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
in Paris
from 1942 to 1949. He was a zoo director in Paris from 1934 to 1946. He is most notable for discovering the Kouprey
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
biologist
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
and director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
from 1942 to 1949. He was a zoo director in Paris from 1934 to 1946. He is most notable for discovering the Kouprey
Kouprey
A kouprey , is a wild, forest-dwelling ox found mainly in northern Cambodia, but also believed to exist in southern Laos, western Vietnam, and eastern Thailand. It was discovered in 1937.Koupreys are very large ungulates, and can approach similar sizes to the wild Asian water buffalo...
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Selected publications
- Achille Urbain: "Le parc zoologique du bois de Vincennes", La Revue de Paris, August 15, 1934.
- Achille Urbain: "Le kou-prey ou bœuf gris cambodgien", Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 62(5), 1937, pp. 305–307.
- Achille Urbain: "Le Kou Prey ou bœuf sauvage cambodgien", Mammalia, vol. 1, 1937, pp. 257–258.
- Achille Urbain, Paul Rode, and M. A. Pasquier: "La collection des bovinés asiatiques du Parc zoologique du Bois de Vincennes", Mammalia, vol. 3, 1939, pp. 122–125.
- Achille Urbain: "Une nouvelle espèce de bovidé asiatique", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, vol. 209, 1939, pp. 1006–1007.
- Achille Urbain: Psychologie des animaux sauvages : instinct, intelligence, Flammarion, Paris, 1940.
- Achille Urbain, Paul Rode: Les singes anthropoïdes, Collection Que sais-je?, N°202, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1946.