Vladimir Dinets
Vladimir Dinets with a skull of a black caiman, Puerto Francisco de Orellana, Ecuador.
Born
Moscow, Russia
Alma materMIREA
University of Miami
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
Ethology
Conservation Biology
Behavioral Ecology
InstitutionsOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology
University of Tennessee
Louisiana State University
Rutgers University
Doctoral advisorSteven Green

Vladimir Dinets is an American zoologist known for his studies of Crocodilian behavior and of numerous rare animals in remote parts of the world, as well as for popular writings in English and Russian.

Education

Dinets was interested in zoology from an early age,[1] and was a winner of all-USSR Student Biology Olympics at Moscow State University.[2] However, due to his Jewish ancestry, he was unofficially banned from entering that university,[3] and obtained a master's degree in biological engineering from Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation. Being strongly opposed to First Chechen War, Dinets emigrated to the United States in 1997, and in 2011 obtained a Ph.D from University of Miami (adviser Steven Green).[4] Dinets maintained a popular bilingual blog on LiveJournal, mostly defunct since the 2014 onset of Russo-Ukrainian War, which caused him to cut off his ties with Russia, and has a website[5] with a number of illustrated essays on biology, conservation and travel.

Work

Books

  • In 1993-1997 Dinets wrote a number of books about travel that remain popular in Russia.[41]
  • Volumes of Encyclopedia of Russian Nature series, Actual Biology Fund, 26,000 copies published:[42] A. Beme, A. Cherenkov, V. Dinets, V. Flint. Birds of Russia (1995); V. Dinets, E. Rotshild. Mammals of Russia (1997); V. Dinets, E. Rotshild. Domestic Animals, 1998.
  • J. Newell (ed.) The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development.[43] Daniel & Daniel Publishers (2004).
  • V. Dinets. Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations [44] Arcade Publishing (2013), softcover edition 2021 [45] Arcade Publishing.
  • V. Dinets. Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America (Peterson Field Guides series) [46] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2015).
  • V. Dinets. Wildlife Spectacles: Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors [47] Timber Press (2016).
  • S. M. Doody, V. Dinets, G. Burghardt. The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles[48] Johns Hopkins University Press (2021).

References

  1. Dinets V. Spontaneous development of hunting-like behavior in juvenile humans: a case study. Humanimalia 8:32-40
  2. Archive of Moscow State University student biological olympics (in Russian)
  3. Dinets, V. Farewell, My Empire! AVP, Moscow, 1998, 220 pp. (in Russian)
  4. Dinets, Vladimir (2011-04-12). "The Role of Habitat in Crocodilian Communication". Open Access Dissertations.
  5. Vladimir Dinets' website
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Vladimir Dinets CV". Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
  7. Dinets, V. Winter ecology of willow and rock ptarmigans at the northern limit of their range. Ornitologia 29: 326-327 (in Russian with English summary)
  8. "Chasing butterfly poachers". Archived from the original on 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
  9. Dinets, V. Shadows around a lamp. Arguments and Facts, December 19, 2001 (in Russian)
  10. "Rodents of the Plains". Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
  11. Dinets, V. First Photo of a Bay Cat in the Wild. IUCN/SSC Cat News 38: 5.
  12. Dinets, V. Observations of the woolly flying squirrel Eupetaurus cinereus in Pakistan. Mammalia 75(3): 277-280.
  13. First observations on the behavior of the flightless anomalure (Zenkerella insignis). Zoology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2017.06.003
  14. "Dinets, V. Nocturnal behavior of American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in the wild during the mating season. Herpetological Bulletin 111: 4-11". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
  15. Dinets, V. Effects of aquatic habitat continuity on signal composition in crocodilians. Animal Behavior 82(2): 191-201.
  16. Dinets, V. The role of Habitat in Crocodilian Communication
  17. Dinets, V. Coordination and collaboration in cooperatively hunting crocodilians. Ethology Ecology & Evolution DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2014.915432.
  18. Dinets, V., Brueggen, J. & Brueggen, J. Crocodilians use tools for hunting. Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 27: 74-78
  19. Feb2017 Dinets_HH(7)_final.pdf Dinets, V. Coordinated hunting by Cuban boas. Animal Behavior and Cognition 4:24-29.
  20. Dinets, V. Tracking the mystery animal. Vokrug Sveta 2012(2) (in Russian)
  21. Dinets, V. Crane dances as play behavior. Ibis 155: 424-425
  22. Dinets, V. Predation on amphibians and reptiles by reintroduced whooping cranes (Grus americana) in Louisiana. American Midland Naturalist 175:135-138
  23. Burghardt GM, Dinets V & Murphy JB. 2014. Highly repetitive object play in a cichlid fish (Tropheus duboisi). Ethology DOI: 10.1111/eth.12312
  24. Dinets, V. Can interrupting cultural transmission be beneficial? The Condor 117:624-628
  25. Dinets, V. Trogloxeny in Caucasian parsley frog, Pelodytes caucasicus. Herpetological Review 133:31-32
  26. Dinets, V., Eligulashvili, B. Striped hyenas in gray wolf packs: cooperation, commensalism or singular aberration? Zoology in the Middle East 62:85-87
  27. Dinets, V. Long-term cave roosting in the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum). Mammalia 81:529-531.
  28. Dinets, V. Surface foraging in Scapanus moles: are there fully fossorial insectivorous mammals? Mammalia DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2016-0091
  29. Dinets, V., Sanchez, M. Brown dippers (Cinclus pallasi) overwintering at -65°C in northeastern Siberia. Wilson’s Journal of Ornithology 129:397-400
  30. Dinets, V., Samaš, P., Croston, R., Grim, T., Hauber, M. E. Predicting the responses of native songbirds to trans-oceanic invasions by brood parasites. Journal of Field Ornithology 86:244-251
  31. OIST Science and Technology Group webpage
  32. Dinets V. 2018. First record of Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini) in Japan. Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 50:1-3
  33. Dinets V., Friedman NR, Masashi Y, Ogasawara M, Economo EP. 2020. Acoustic detection of an unknown bat species in Okinawa. Mammal Study 45:1-4
  34. Kisleiko A, Dinets V, Grihchenko M, Kozlovskiy E, Khlyap L. 2020. The European mink (Mustela lutreola) on Kunashir Island: confirmed survival 40 years after introduction. Mammal Study 47:1-10
  35. Dinets V. 2021. Surface feeding in Kogiid whales. Aquatic Mammals 47:111-113
  36. Dinets V., Asada K. 2021. Noble savages: the natural history of human-independent Rattus rats in Japan. Journal of Natural History 54:2391-2414
  37. Dinets V, Maikov M. 2022. Long-tailed bandicoot rat is not extinct. Zoology in the Middle East 54:2391-2414
  38. OKEON Project webpage
  39. Dinets V. 2021. First case of endothermy in semi-sessile animals. 337:111-114. Journal of Experimental Biology A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology 337:111-114
  40. Rutgers University webpage
  41. Academy of Free Travel (in Russian)
  42. ABF books catalog (in Russian)
  43. J. Newell (ed.) The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development. ISBN 978-1880284759
  44. V. Dinets Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations ISBN 978-1611458930
  45. V. Dinets Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations ISBN 978-1950691999
  46. V. Dinets Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America ISBN 978-0544373273
  47. V. Dinets Wildlife Spectacles: Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors ISBN 978-1604696714
  48. S. M. Doody, V. Dinets, G. Burghardt. The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles ISBN 978-1421440675
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.