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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13733

    Group portrait of Gill Thompson, Peter McPhail and Mike and Barbara MacRoberts

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full length group portrait of Gill Thompson, Peter McPhail and Mike and Barbara MacRoberts walking over grassland near Walney Island, Cumbria, England. They walk towards the camera with gulls surrounding them, a ship’s mast can be seen behind the sand dunes on the left.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Saffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Gill Thomas, British ethologist.

    Peter McPhail, field assistant to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Michael H MacRoberts, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Barbara MacRoberts, botanist, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
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