1. Valerius Geist was a German-Canadian biologist and a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary.
16 Facts About Valerius Geist
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Valerius Geist was a specialist on the biology, behavior, and social dynamics of North American large mammals, and well respected on his views of Neanderthal people and behavior.
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Valerius Geist was born on February 2,1938, in Nikolajew at the coast of the Black Sea, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the USSR.
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Valerius Geist translated volumes 3 and 10 of Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia into English.
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Valerius Geist graduated from high school in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1957 and started to study zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he met his wife in 1958.
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The Geists returned to Canada in 1968 where Valerius accepted a position at the University of Calgary.
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Valerius Geist is known for his scientific research on the behavior and population biology of many wild ungulate species and canids.
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Valerius Geist testified on wildlife conservation policy in court, before Senate of the State of Montana and before the Parliamentary Committee on Environment, and Sustainable Development in Ottawa.
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Valerius Geist became an outspoken commentator on wolves and recognized them as dangerous predators to humans.
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Valerius Geist was of the opinion that wolves are most likely to fulfill their ecological function in unpopulated and very thinly populated areas.
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Valerius Geist became involved in the inquiry surrounding the Death of Kenton Joel Carnegie in November 2005 at Wollaston Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Valerius Geist expressed growing concern as wolves began to follow his wife outside their home on Vancouver Island and threaten her safety.
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Valerius Geist worked in the field of palaeozoology of ungulates and canids and researched the differences in the ecological status of wolves in the Pleistocene megafauna and the present wild fauna.
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Valerius Geist suggested that ancient cave art was more likely to be graffiti, left by young men who dared one another to go deep into the earth to make their marks.
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Valerius Geist won the Wilderness Defenders Award from the Alberta Wilderness Association in 2004.
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Valerius Geist is the only North American hunter to be honored with professional membership in both the Boone and Crockett Club and its European counterpart, the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation.