'Clarence Ray Carpenter' ('C.R. Carpenter') (1906? -
March 1,
1975) was an
American primatologist who was one of the first scientific investigators to film and videotape the behavior of primates in their natural environments.
Carpenter earned his Bachelor of Science (1928) and Master of Science (1929) degrees at
Duke University and his Ph.D. (1932) at
Stanford University.
From 1931 to 1934, Carpenter conducted field research on the natural behavior of primates under the sponsorship of
Yale University professor
Robert M. Yerkes. According to
Irven DeVore, "for the succeeding thirty years almost all of the accurate information available on the behavior of monkeys and apes living in natural environments was the result of Carpenter's research and writing."
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Books
★ ''Behavioral Regulators of Behavior in Primates''. C. R. Carpenter, ed.
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania:
Bucknell University Press,
1974. Hardcover: ISBN 0-838-71099-9, ISBN 978-0-83871-099-9.
Films
★
C.R. Carpenter Primate Studies Series Pennsylvania State University
Papers
★ "Behavior and Social Relations of the Howling Monkey,"
Comparative Psychology Monographs,
Johns Hopkins University, May,
1934.
★ "Field Study in Siam of the Behavior and social Relations of the Gibbon," Comparative Psychology Monographs, Johns Hopkins University, December,
1940.
★ "Societies of Monkeys and Apes," Biological Symposia, v. 8,
1942.
★ "Evolutionary interpretation of human behavior," Transactions of the
New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
★ "Social Behavior of the Primates," ''
Colloques internationaux du
Centre national de la recherche scientifique,'' v. 34, March,
1950.
References
★
Biographical sketch at Primate Info Net.