Edmund Jaeger Scientist

Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc., (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology. He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther) and John Philip Jaeger, and moved to Riverside, California in 1906 with his family. He was the first to document, in The Condor, a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the Common Poorwill. He also described this in the National Geographic Magazine.

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Alias (AKA)	Jäger Edmund Carroll
Birth date	January 28, 1887
Date of death	August 02, 1983
Education	Occidental College
Known for	Common Poorwill

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awards	Phi Beta Kappa Society Sigma Xi
influenced	David D. Keck
influenced by	David Starr Jordan John Harvey Kellogg Lawrence Bruner Willis Linn Jepson Walter Tennyson Swingle Marcus E. Jones Carl Eytel John Muir Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell J. Smeaton Chase