GEIST POPULARIZED NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE MODEL
The deer world lost a pioneering researcher with the recent death of Dr. Valerius Geist on July 6, 2021. He was 83.
Geist was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, USSR, and raised in Austria and Germany. He completed his postdoctoral studies in 1968 at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology while studying under the guidance of Konrad Lorenz, the Nobel-prize winning zoologist from Austria. Geist spent his career conducting scientific research on the behavior and population biology
