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Online Publication Date: 11 Oct 2017

George Bernard Rabb

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Page Range: 592 – 598
DOI: 10.1643/OT-15-361.1
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Editor's note.—On 27 July 2017, George Rabb, zoologist and director of the Brookfield Zoo, passed away at the age of 87. He was one of the greatest champions of conservation, and we honor his legacy by reprinting this Historical Perspective that appeared in Copeia (103:1086–1092).

Copyright: © 2017 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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Fig. 1

George Rabb (far left) with colleagues on Great Inagua during the Bahamian Island expedition in 1952–1953. The white foam was blown in from the salt pond to the right. This is Figure 5 in Rabb and Hayden (1957). Image courtesy of Kraig Adler.

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George Rabb with an Okapi at the Brookfield Zoo. Photo by Jim Schultz.

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Fig. 3

George Rabb and Margaret Stewart at her symposium reception at the 1997 joint meetings in Seattle, Washington. Photo by Kiisa Nishekawa.

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Fig. 4

George Rabb, with Ecnomiohyla rabborum, named in honor of George and Mary Rabb in 2008. Photographed by George’s niece, Lara Long, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2011.

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Fig. 5

George Rabb on 28 September 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Used with permission from the Zoo & Aquarium Video Archive (www.zoovideoarchive.org).

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