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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13728

    Portrait of Lary Shaffer

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Lary Shaffer outside the research base camp at Walney Island, Cumbria, England. He is bare chested and has the research group’s pet crow Nikon on his right shoulder.

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

    Michael H MacRoberts, 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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