Biography

Anelio Aguayo Lobo, Chilean mammalogist (Curepto, Talca Province, Maule Region 21 August 1933 –

Pioneered ecological studies on cetaceans of America

Showed that whales migrates to Antartic waters in the winter

With R. Bernal, C. Olavarría, V. Vallejos e R. Hucke-Gaete. Observaciones de cetaceos realizadas entre Valparaiso e isla de Pascua, Chiler, durante los inviernos de 1993, 1994 y 1995. Rev. Biol. Mar. Ocean. 33(1):101-23, 1998

First to report these colour patterns for this species

With J. Acevedo & D. Torres. Rare piebald and partially leucistic Antartic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica. Polar Biol. 32(1):41-5, 2009

Reported the first confirmed case of albinism in Antarctic pagophilic true seals species

With J. Acevedo & D. Torres. Albino Weddell seal at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica. Polar Biol. 32(8):1239-43, 2009

Presented the first analysis of genetic differentiation and estimates of gene flow between distinct populations of humpback whales

With A.L. Cypriano-Souza, M.H. Engel, S. Caballero, C. Olavarria, L. Florez Gonzalez, J. Capella, D. Steel, A. Sremba, D. Thiele, C. Scott Baker & S.L. Bonatto. Genetic differentiation between humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from Atlantic and Pacific breeding grounds of South America. Marine Mamm. Science 33(2):457-79, 2017