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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13746

    Portrait of Mike MacRoberts

    Date
    1969
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full length portrait of Mike MacRoberts in the court yard at the research base, Walney Island, Cumbria, England. He is dressed in a mackintosh with wellington boots and is wearing a helmet. He has a canvas satchel across his body and a tea towel tucked into a belt around his middle.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Saffer 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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