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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 18 Dec 2024

A Man for All Wet Seasons: Kentwood D. Wells (1948–2024)

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Page Range: 672 – 675
DOI: 10.1643/t2024104
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.

Kent loved cats and always had them around.

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Fig. 2.

Kent with collecting net at a favorite field site near the University of Connecticut campus in 2004.

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Fig. 3.

Kent with then-graduate student Kristiina Hurme at a local black racer den in 2009.

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Fig. 4.

Kent at STRI in Panama, 1985.

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Kent with a magic lantern, another topic of scholarly interest.

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Kent as a child on Christmas day with his grandfather. We don’t know if the toy frog reflects an already budding interest in anurans, or if it might be the source of his later obsession.

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1 Biology Department, Pace University, 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, New York 10570; Email: jschwartz2.emeritus@pace.edu
2 Division of Biological Science, University of Missouri, 216 Tucker Hall, Columbia, Missouri 65211; ORCID: 0000-0003-4717-3358; Email: goyes.johana@gmail.com
3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd., Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043; ORCID: (KS) 0000-0002-0767-3940; Email: (SZH) susan.herrick@uconn.edu; and (KS) kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu. Send correspondence to KS
4 Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, Washington 98195-1800; ORCID: 0000-0001-6162-5301; Email: hurme@uw.edu
5 Biology Department, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College, 9555 Plainfield Dr., Blue Ash, Ohio 45236-0086; Email: owenpk@ucmail.uc.edu
6 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 2415 Speedway Avenue #C0930, Austin, Texas 78712; ORCID: 0000-0002-6381-9545; Email: mryan@utexas.edu
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