Oscar de Beaux | |
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| Born | 5 December 1879 |
| Died | 29 September 1955 (aged 75) |
| Citizenship | Italy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mammalogy |
| Institutions | Tierpark Hagenbeck University of Genoa Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova |
Oscar de Beaux (5 December 1879 – 29 September 1955) was an Italian mammalogist. His studies of mammals primarily concerned the Italian colonies of Africa. De Beaux was also a conservationist, authoring one of the first papers to argue the ethics of conservation, "Biological ethics: an attempt to arouse a naturalistic conscience".