Edmund Heller

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Edmund Heller (born May 21, 1875, Freeport, Illinois, died July 18, 1939, San Francisco, California) was an American zoologist.

Heller attented the Stanford University in 1896 and finished his study of zoology with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901. From 1926 to 1928 he was curator of mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Edmund Heller was the director of the Washington Park Zoo in Milwaukee (from 1928 to 1935) and the Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco (from 1935 to 1939). He was also the president of the AZA from 1935 to 1939. At the the beginning of the 20th century he led many expeditions to Africa and in 1914 he wrote the book Life-histories of African Game Animals in collaboration with Theodore Roosevelt. Species which were named after Heller are the Taita Thrush (Turdus helleri) or the Puna Thistletail (Schizoeaca helleri).