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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
— Henry Walter Bates
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Henry Walter Bates
explorer, lepidopterist, zoologist, ecologist, entomologist, naturalist, botanist, botanical collector, zoological collector
1825 – 1892
Henry Walter Bates was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species of which 8,000 were new to science. Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863).
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
— Henry Walter Bates