Edmund Heller

Edmund Heller (May 21, 1875, Freeport, Illinois – July 18, 1939, San Francisco, California) was an American zoologist.

Heller attended Stanford University in 1896 and finished his study of zoology with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901. From 1926 to 1928 he was curator of mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Edmund Heller was the director of the Washington Park Zoo in Milwaukee (from 1928 to 1935) and the Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco (from 1935 to 1939). He was also the president of the AZA from 1935 to 1939. At the beginning of the 20th century he led many expeditions to Africa and in 1914 he wrote the book "Life-histories of African Game Animals" in collaboration with Theodore Roosevelt.cite book
last = Roosevelt
first = Theodore
authorlink = Theodore Roosevelt
coauthors = Edmund Heller
title = Life-histories of African Game Animals
year = 1914
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=gYoNAAAAYAAJ
format = HTML
accessdate = 2008-03-28
edition = 1
publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons] Species which were named after Heller are the Taita Thrush ("Turdus helleri") or the Puna Thistletail ("Schizoeaca helleri").

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* [http://www.aza.org/AboutAZA/PA_TOC/Documents/PA_Heller.pdf Edmund Heller biography by the AZA]