Ángel Cabrera (naturalist)

He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to Morocco.In 1907, he proposed that the Iberian wolf was a separate subspecies, which he named Canis lupus signatus.He was head of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museo de La Plata, and made collecting trips to Patagonia and Catamarca.He supervised the doctoral work of some of the first palaeontologists of South America, including Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez and Dolores López Aranguren.Among these works can be mentioned Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur (Catalogue of South American Mammals), Zoología pintoresca (Picturesque Zoology), Historia de Leones (Story of Lions) and Los mamíferos extinguidos (Extinct Mammals), all in language accessible to non-specialist readers.
Illustration of Ornithorhynchus anatinus in the book Genera Mammalium (Cabrera, 1919).
La PlataUniversidad Complutense de MadridÁngel Lulio CabreraReal Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y NaturalesMuseo Nacional de Ciencias NaturalesUniversidad Nacional de La PlataAuthor abbrev. (botany)Author abbrev. (zoology)zoologistMadridUniversidad CentralMoroccoIberian wolfOrnithorhynchus anatinusArgentinaMuseo de La PlataPatagoniaCatamarcaMathilde Dolgopol de Sáez