deaths
August 5, 2018
Alan Rabinowitz, American zoologist (born 1953)
Alan Rabinowitz
Alan Robert Rabinowitz was an American zoologist who served as the president, CEO, and chief scientist at Panthera Corporation, a nonprofit conservation organization devoted to protecting the world's 40 wild cat species. Called the "Indiana Jones of Wildlife Protection" by Time, he studied jaguars, clouded leopards, Asiatic leopards, tigers, Sumatran rhinos, bears, leopard cats, raccoons, cervidae, and civets.
August 5
August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 148 days remain until the end of the year.