Edmund Jaeger
Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc., (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American
biologist known for his works on
desert ecology. He was born in
Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther) and John Philip Jaeger, and moved to
Riverside, California in 1906 with his family. He was the first to document, in
''The Condor'', a state of extended
torpor, approaching
hibernation, in a bird, the
common poorwill. He also described this in the ''
National Geographic Magazine''.
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