Dr. Albert R. Shadle was an American

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 biologist

Biology

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 noted for his research into porcupine

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s and beaver

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s. From 1919 until 1953, Shadle served as chairman of the biology department, and was instrumental in the advancement of science education, at the State University of New York at Buffalohttp://biology.buffalo.edu/dept/alumni/newsletter/bionews_1999.html. He also acted as a professor of biology whose pupils included noted entomologist

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 Maynard Jack Ramsay

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Journal of Mammalogy

• 1957: Sizes of Beaver Chips Cut from Aspen
• 1956: Parturition in a Skunk, Mephitis mephitis hudsonica
• 1955: Removal of Foreign Quills by Porcupines
• 1955: Pelage of the Porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum dorsatum
• 1954: Osteologic Criteria of Age in Beavers
• 1953: Gross Anatomy of the Male Reproductive System of the Porcupine
• 1950: Feeding, Care, and Handling of Captive Porcupines (Erethizon)
• 1949: Rate of Penetration of a Porcupine Spine
• 1948: Gestation Period in the Porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum dorsatum
• 1946: The Sex Reactions of Porcupines (Erethizon d. dorsatum) before and after Copulation
• 1943: An Unusual Porcupine Parturition and Development of the Young
• 1943: Comparison of Tree Cuttings of Six Beaver Colonies in Allegany State Park, New York
• 1939: Fifteen Months of Beaver Work at Allegany State Park, N. Y.
• 1936: The Attrition and Extrusive Growth of the Four Major Incisor Teeth of Domestic Rabbits
• 1930: An Unusual Case of Parturition in a Beaver

Journal of Wildlife Management

• 1953: Captive Striped Skunk Produces Two Litters
• 1946: Copulation in the Porcupine
• 1943: Reforestation of Aspen after Complete Cutting by Beavers
• 1942: The Deer of Allegany State Park, New York

Other publications

• 1955: Effects of Porcupine Quills in Humans (The American Naturalist
  University of Chicago
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• 1954: Sizes of Wood Cuttings Handled by Beavers (American Midland Naturalist
  University of Notre Dame
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• 1939: Craspedacusta Again in Western New York (Transactions of the American Microscopical Society; )
• 1935: A Zipper Tube for Holding Small Live Animals (Science
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
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