Vratislav Mazák

Vratislav Mazák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvracɪslaf ˈmazaːk]; 22 June 1937 – 9 September 1987) was a Czech biologist who specialized in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy. He was also a painter, often illustrating his books about animals and men.

Born at Kutná Hora, he was a professor^[ambiguous] at the Charles University's Faculty of Science^[1] and worked as a zoologist at the Prague National Museum. With Colin Groves, Mazák described, named and classified the early hominin Homo ergaster. He also described the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris corbetti.^[2]

He died in Prague.

Major publications

Naši savci (1970), Our Mammals
Kostra velryby v Národním muzeu v Praze a krátký pohled do světa kytovců (1976), The skeleton of the whale in the Prague National Museum and a brief look into the world of cetaceans
Jak vznikl člověk: Sága rodu Homo (1977), The Origin of Man - Saga of the genus Homo; with Zdeněk Burian
Velké kočky a gepardi (1980), Big cats and cheetahs
Jak vznikl člověk: (Sága rodu Homo) (1986), The Origin of Man—Saga of the genus Homo, a revised and enlarged edition; with Zdeněk Burian
Kytovci (1988), Cetaceans
Pravěký člověk (1992), Prehistoric Man; with Zdeněk Burian

^ Charles University^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Mazák, V. (1981). "Panthera tigris" (PDF). Mammalian Species (152): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3504004. JSTOR 3504004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2005.1-8&rft.date=1981&rft_id=info:doi/10.2307/3504004&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3504004#id-name=JSTOR&rft.au=Mazák, V.&rft_id=http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-152-01-0001.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Vratislav Mazák" class="Z3988">