Carnivore Body Size – Aspects of Geographic Variation
Carnivore Body size – aspects of geographic variation THESIS FOR THE DEGREE "DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY" BY SHAI MEIRI SUBMITTED TO THE SENATE OF TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY July 2004 i This work was carried out under the supervision of: Professor Tamar Dayan, Tel-Aviv University. Professor Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ii I wish to thank Tamar Dayan and Daniel Simberloff, my advisors, for their trust, encouragement, and critical thinking. For letting me into what was their own realm, and for their guidance along its paths. Uri Roll for inspiring ideas, critical thinking, technical and moral support, and unwillingness to accept anything but the best. More importantly, Uri, thank you for your friendship. Guy Bar-Oz, for advice, humor, guidance, and encouragement. The Collection managers in the museums I visited: Daphne Hills, Richard Harbord, Ray Symonds, Géraldine Véron, Jacques Cuisin, Francis Renoult, Adri G. Rol, Chris (and Nellie) Smeenk, Byrdena Shepherd, Bob Randall, Gordon Jarrell, Lesley M. Kennes, David Nagorsen, Judith Eger, Michelle Gosselin, Darlene Balkwill, Suzanne McLaren, Timothy J. McCarthy, William Stanley, Judith Chupasko, Tsila Shariv, Jan Dawson, Yang Chang Man, Mrs. H. K. Lua, Hideki Endo and Tomoko, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Richard Kraft, Georges Lenglet, Georges Coulon, Sebastian Bruaux, Angela Ross, Peter Giere and Willie, Robert Asher, Clara Stefen, Thor (and Elaine) Holmes and Eileen A. Lacey. Thanks for your support, patience, and advice, thank you for showing me how museum collections should be maintained and how museum research should be conducted, thanks for answering questions I had during my stays and in the years after. Thank you for visits to the displays (Francis, Lesley, Jan, Rob) and the zoo (Adri), thank you Lesley and Timothy for rides from and to the airport at 04:00 AM following September 11 and at other times (Chris and Nellie, Gordon, Hideki, Thor), for inviting me to dine, for arranging accommodation or even for inviting me to stay with you, and for making me feel wanted in foreign places.
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