biography
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Carr, Archie
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popular name of Archibald Fairly Carr, Jr
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909–87)
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| biography:
| Herpetologist, born in Mobile, Alabama, USA. He spent his career at the University of Florida, Gainsville (1933–87), with concurrent affiliations at the Escuela Panamericana Honduras (1945–9) and the American Museum of Natural History (1951–87). He made major contributions to the ecology of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles of Florida. His classic conservationist book, The Windward Road (1956), which won the O Henry Award for best non-fiction short story that year, began his worldwide campaign to protect sea turtles from human predators, ocean pollution, and extinction. The book inspired the creation of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (1959), which he served during 1961–87. |
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