Edmund Jaeger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Jaeger

American biologist

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1887

Place of Birth: Loup City, Nebraska, United States

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1983

Profession: biologist, ecologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc., (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology.
He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther) and John Philip Jaeger, and moved to Riverside, California in 1906 with his family.
He was the first to document, in The Condor, a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the common poorwill.
He also described this in the National Geographic Magazine.