Achille Urbain
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Achille Joseph Urbain (May 9, 1884 – December 5, 1957) was a French biologist and director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1942 to 1949. He was a zoo director in Paris from 1934 to 1946. He is most notable for discovering the Kouprey.
[edit] Selected publications
- Achille Urbain: "Le parc zoologique du bois de Vincennes", La Revue de Paris, August 15, 1934.
- Achille Urbain: "Le kou-prey ou bœuf gris cambodgien", Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 62(5), 1937, pp. 305–307.
- Achille Urbain: "Le Kou Prey ou bœuf sauvage cambodgien", Mammalia, vol. 1, 1937, pp. 257–258.
- Achille Urbain, Paul Rode, and M. A. Pasquier: "La collection des bovinés asiatiques du Parc zoologique du Bois de Vincennes", Mammalia, vol. 3, 1939, pp. 122–125.
- Achille Urbain: "Une nouvelle espèce de bovidé asiatique", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, vol. 209, 1939, pp. 1006–1007.
- Achille Urbain: Psychologie des animaux sauvages : instinct, intelligence, Flammarion, Paris, 1940.
- Achille Urbain, Paul Rode: Les singes anthropoïdes, Collection Que sais-je?, N°202, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1946.
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