Adelmar Faria Coimbra Filho, Brazilian primatologist (Fortaleza 04 June 1924 – Rio de Janeiro 27 June 2016)
Authored over 200 works
Gained international renown for his studies on primates conservation mainly lion tamarins
Founded the Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro, the world’s first institute to aim primarily primates conservation (1975)
First to breed Lion tamarins in captivity
Observed the habit of tree-gouging and gum-eating among the marmosets of Brazil
Aspectos inéditos do comportamento de saguis do gênero Callithrix (Callithricidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 32(4):505-12, 1972
With R. A. Mittermeier. Exudate-eating and tree-gouging in marmosets. Nature 262:630, 1976
Showed the inversion of reproductive phases in primates due to boreal-austral hemisphere migration
With A. de A. Maia. As fases do processo reprodutivo de Macaca mulatta Zimmermann 1780, na ilha do Pinheiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Cercopithecidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 37(1):77-8, 1977
With A. de A. Maia. A sazonalidade do processo reprodutivo em Leontopithecus r. rosalia (Linnaeus, 1766) (Callithricidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 39(3):643-51, 1979
Described Callithrix kuhlii 1985, a new marmoset species
First to breed Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) at sea level
HONOURS
Australian primatologist Colin Groves called him living legend of primatology in his book Primate Taxonomy (2001)