Angel Cabrera (February 19, 1879 - July 8, 1960) was a Spanishzoologist. February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
Cabrera was born in Madrid and studied at the city's university. He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to Morocco. Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles square) and the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) Coat of arms. ...
In 1925 Cabrera went to Argentina and remained there for the rest of his life. He was head of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museo de la Plata, and made collecting trips to Patagonia and Catamarca. // For the town, see Patagonia, Arizona. ... Categories: Argentina geography stubs | Argentine provinces ...
Naturalists were running all over the place trying to name new subspecies.
This subspecies was described in 1907 by Ángel Cabrera, a Spanish naturalist, after captive wolves in Murcia, Spain.
After their description by Cabrera, nobody had spoken about these wolves, and most likely they were bizarre Iberian wolves (Canis lupus signatus) due to life in captivity.