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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13717

    Portrait of Lary Shaffer and Barbara MacRoberts

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
    Barbara MacRoberts, Botanist
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Portrait of Lary Shaffer and Barbara MacRoberts conducting research on Edible crabs, Cancer pagurus [?], on the beach at Walney Island, Cumbria, England. Shaffer is occupied with a specimen while MacRoberts takens notes.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for 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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