AN UNREALIZED COOPERATION BETWEEN A. N. SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF ANIMALS OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND FRENCH BIOLOGISTS IN THE FIELD OF DOLPHINS’ BIOACOUSTICS
- Authors: Vanisova E.A.1
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Affiliations:
- S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 46, No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 634–646
- Section: Social History of Science
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0205-9606/article/view/361628
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S2713041X25060034
- ID: 361628
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Abstract
The article is devoted to an episode in the Soviet-French scientific cooperation in the late 1960s – early 1970s, a meeting of V. E. Sokolov, Director of the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals (USSR Academy of Sciences), with R.-G. Busnel, Director of the Laboratory of Acoustic Physiology (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France), in Moscow in April 1968, and their preliminary discussion on organizing joint bioacoustic research on dolphins. The details of this collaboration are discussed, based on the archival documents that are introduced for scientific use for the first time. Sokolov and Busnel agreed upon a joint expedition to India, Pakistan, and Burma in 1969–1972 to study biology, echolocation abilities, and communication system of two poorly studied dolphin species, as well as joint works in the Mediterranean beginning with 1969, which were planned to involve close scientific contacts between Soviet and French researchers. Unfortunately, however, these joint studies never happened.
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About the authors
E. A. Vanisova
S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vanisova@ihst.ru
Moscow, Russia
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