Julian P. Hume
American Museum of Natural History
65 Papers
525 Citations
Julian P. Hume is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dodo & Biology. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 55 publications. Previous affiliations of Julian P. Hume include Natural History Museum & University of Portsmouth.
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•Journal Article
The Correct Publication Date of Aplonis Corvina (Kittlitz, 1833)
Julian P. Hume,Alan Peterson +1 more
TL;DR: Hume as discussed by the authors gave the date of publication of Aplonis corvina as 1833, a date that has also been used by some other authors, such as Amadon (1962) and Hume (2002).
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Captive birds on Dutch Mauritius: bad-tempered parrots, warty pigeons and notes on other native animals
Julian P. Hume,Ria Winters +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a translation of the recently discovered report of Johannes Pretorius, who stayed on Mauritius from 1666 to 1669 Pretorius kept a number of now extinct birds in captivity, which was probably an experiment to ascertain their captive requirements prior to transportation.
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Giant tortoises spread to western Indian Ocean islands by sea drift in pre-Holocene times, not by later human agency – response to Wilmé et al. (2016a)
Anthony S. Cheke,Miguel Pedrono,Roger Bour,Atholl Anderson,Christine J. Griffiths,John B. Iverson,Julian P. Hume,Martin Walsh +7 more
TL;DR: Evidence from DNA phylogeny, Plio-Pleistocene ocean currents, giant tortoise dispersal, evolution of plant defences, radiocarbon dates and archaeology indicates that the endemic giant tortoises on the Mascarenes and Seychelles colonized naturally and were not translocated there by humans.
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The white dodo of Réunion Island: unravelling a scientific and historical myth
Julian P. Hume,Anthony S. Cheke +1 more
TL;DR: The supposed white dodo of Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) arose from a merging of travellers' tales of large whitish birds with some enigmatic paintings of white dodos painted in mid- to late- seventeenth-century Holland.
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Unpublished drawings of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and notes on Dodo skin relics
Julian P. Hume,Anna Datta,David M. Martill +2 more
- 01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The Dodo Raphus cucullatus was an endemic giant flightless pigeon from Mauritius that died out within 100 years of its discovery in 1598 (Moree 1998, Hume et al. 2004).