Anatoly Alexandrovich Zakharov - one of the best experts in ants. He has written many scientific articles about these insects, is an entomologist, and a doctor of biological sciences.
Zakharov Anatoly Alexandrovich deeply studied the use of red ants for forest protection. He developed recommendations that describe in detail how to resettle these insects, but only their beneficial species.
Biography
Anatoly Alexandrovich was born in October 1940.
From an early youth, the future scientist observed insects, he loved nature. Therefore, after graduation, Anatoly went to the Forestry Institute of Moscow. He graduated from this institution in 1963. Five years later, a specialist who received higher education was invited to work at the Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Here, future scientists dealt with the problems of evolution and ecology.
Scientific career
In the same 1968, Zakharov defended his candidacy. In it, he highlighted the issues of red ants, developed in detail a plan for using these insects to preserve forest lands. In 1983, Anatoly Alexandrovich already defended his doctoral dissertation. It is devoted to the study of the social organization of ants.
The scientist has created many books. One of them, which tells about the relationships between ants within species, has become very popular with worldmecologists.
Zakharov made a great contribution to the study of these insects. So, he first developed a hierarchy scheme within ant groups.
When an inquisitive scientist was on expeditions abroad, he again studied his favorite insects. An ecologist has studied ants that live in the tropics. For this, he visited Australia, Vietnam, the Seychelles, the islands of Oceania, and Peru.
These trips were very fruitful. In one such expedition, A. A. Zakharov discovered a new species of ants in the tropics. They were named after this Russian scientist.
Noting the enormous contribution Anatoly Alexandrovich Zakharov made to Russian and foreign science, he was awarded prizes and awarded the honorary titles of the laureate.
