Jordi Sabater Pi

Jordi Sabater Pi (2 August 1922 – 5 August 2009) was a Spanish primatologist and specialist in ethology. Sabater was known for describing the cultural behaviors of several species, including the use of tools by chimpanzees. During the 1960s, he purchased Snowflake, a very rare albino gorilla and transported him to Barcelona Zoo, where he lived until his death in 2003.

Jordi Sabater Pi

Sabater Pi was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was professor of ethology at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona and studied animal behaviour and primatology in Spain. His line of work has been continued by several of his disciples, such as Joaquim J. Veà Baró, Matthew Escobar Aliaga, and Montserrat Colell Mimó.

Sabater Pi once said that the decline in population and, in the case of some subspecies, their near extinction, was comparable to genocide among human beings. Sabater Pi advocated for the conservation of primates, supporting projects such as the Proyecto Gran Simio in Spain or Fundación Mona in Girona.

See also

• Nonhuman Rights Project
• Jane Goodall
• USC Jane Goodall Research Center
• Washoe (chimpanzee)
• Joaquim Veà Baró

References

• Etología de la vivienda humana: de los nidos de gorilas y chimpancés a la vivienda humana. Labor, 1985. ISBN 978-84-335-1739-5.
• El chimpancé y los orígenes de la cultura. Barcelona. Anthropos. 1992 (3rd. edition). ISBN 978-84-7658-356-2.
• Gorilas y chimpancés del África Occidental. México. Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1993 (2nd. edition).
• Okorobikó. A biography of Jordi Sabater Pi from Joan Tort and Pere Tobaruela, Editorial La Magrana / National Geographic (1st edition, December 2003) ISBN 84-8264-505-6
• El traç de la natura. Jordi Sabater Pi y Xavier Duran. Edicions 62, Barcelona, 2001. ISBN 978-84-297-4835-2.
• Clark Desmond J.; Veá i Baró, J. J.; Serrallonga Alset, J.; Turbón Borrega, D. (2003), Primates: origin, evolution and behaviour: homage to Jordi Sabater Pi, Edicions Del Parc Científic de Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-607-6636-0.

External links

• Special Collection: Jordi Sabater Pi (University of Barcelona Library)
• "Dr. Sabater Pi: Dibuix naturalista". Resource Centre for Learning and Research (CRAI), University of Barcelona.
• Documentation Centre – Sabater Pi Collection at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 October 2008)
• Interview published in the educational magazine of Omnium Cultural Escola Catalana at archive.today (archived 3 March 2007)