Helmut Karl Buechner

He received a bachelor's degree from New York State College of Forestry and Syracuse University in 1941.

[1][2] Buechner's analysis of the territorial behavior of the Ugandan kob, first observed by his wife Jimmie H. Buechner, was widely discussed by other wildlife biologists and ecologists and attracted the attention of popular authors such as Robert Ardrey.

[3][4] In 1950 Buechner won the George Mercer Award of the Ecological Society of America, for his famous study "Life History, Ecology, and Range Use of the Pronghorn in Trans-Pecos Texas".

He also received The Wildlife Society's Terrestrial Research Award for his work with bighorn sheep.

Twice Helmut Buechner was awarded Fulbright Program appointments as Senior Scholar on Wildlife Research in Uganda, from 1956 to 1958.

Pronghorn doe with fawns about 1 hour old, near Ft. Davis, Texas, 1947. Photo by Helmut Buechner, courtesy Smithsonian Institution .