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His technical specialties focused on the evolution of brooc! parasitism in birds ancI other aspects of bird behavior, avian taxonomy, cerophagy and wax digestion by honey guides, and the significance of animal symbolism in the art of the Renaissance and Middle Ages.
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144 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS and wit, which ~ first came to know when, in 1941, ~ worked as an assistant curator uncler his benign tutelage at the then-named United States National Museum, in Washington, D.C. Herbert Friedmann spent his childhood in Brooklyn, where his father was a druggist.
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behavior reflected! in the social habits of the weaverbircls and brood parasitism of cuckoos, honey guides, and weavers.
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National Museum, ~ hac3 the opportunity to meet Herbert Friedmann. As a new curatorial replacement for the late I
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National Museum at this time. John Walker, its second director, in his ~ 963 book The National Gallery in Washington, D
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Friedmann's interest in nest parasitism lect him to the study of honey guides (family Inclicatoriciae)
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The honey guide is unique in its consumption of beeswax, which forms a considerable part of the bird's diet. Since wax was thought to be indigestible by vertebrates, Friedmann, after he returned to Washington, set out to determine the process by which honey guides achiever!
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It bespeaks a mind that remained remarkably vigorous even into his latter years. As to the physical evidence of his intellectual efforts, Herbert Friedmann published seventeen book-length works, including The Cowbirds: A Study in the Biology of Social Parasitism ~929)
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These can be grouped into several general areas of interest: nest parasitism by cuckoos, weaverbirds, and cowbirds; the avifaunas of Africa and South America; the behavior anc! wax digestion of the honey guides; taxonomy of North American birds; subfossi!
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152 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS efforts. The list of accomplishments during this perioc!
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He penned a limerick that accompanied an exhibit on honey guides in the Los Angeles County Museum: There once was a bird in Nigeria Whose chatter grew weary and wearier. Its demeanor grew lax As it gobbled up wax, Which it stuffed in its little interior.
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Herbert Friedmann's ashes have been placed in a memorial step at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C., a five-minute walk from the Friedmann's first home in Georgetown.
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