Frédéric Cuvier

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name = Frédéric Cuvier


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nationality = French
field = Zoology
work_institution = Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle
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author_abbreviation_zoo = F. Cuvier
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Frédéric Cuvier (June 28, 1773–July 24, 1838) was a French zoologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier.

Frederic was the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1804 to 1838. He discovered the red panda ("Ailurus fulgens") in 1821. The chair of comparative physiology was created for him at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in 1837. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1835.

Cuvier was the author, with Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of "Histoire naturelle des mammifères" (4 vols., 1819–1842).

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SHORT DESCRIPTION= French zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH= June 28, 1773
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DATE OF DEATH= July 24, 1838
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