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= Dr. Elliott Haimoff =

Elliott H. Haimoff, Ph.D - (b. 1955; Los Angeles, CA, USA), is a Cambridge-educated biologist and documentary filmmaker. Haimoff founded a TV production company, Global Science Productions, in 1990, located in Beverly Hills, CA.

Dr. Haimoff develops "edu-tainment" documentaries focusing on space; animal, primate and human biology; science; health; sports and nature.

Haimoff was an early user of site-specific computer software for biological analyses of animals, both in a laboratory setting and in the wild. In the mid-1970s, “portable” or “field” video recorders and cameras were custom-made, limited edition prototypes so weighty they required two crew-members to carry around, and the videotape was hand-spooled onto reel-to-reel decks.

1 Early life and education
Dr. Haimoff received his Ph.D. in Biology from Cambridge University’s Pembroke College (UK).

Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton attended Pembroke as well as Stephen Hawking. Animal behaviorist David Chivers was Haimoff's supervising doctoral advisor. Evolutionary biologist and Sr. Curator of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, Dr. Robert Martin, served as Haimoff's official Ph.D. academic examiner. Professor Martin employed Haimoff as a contributing co-author of his book on human sexual behavior, How We Do It. Later, Dr. Martin acted as co-producer and narrater for Haimoff’s documentary show, The Nature of Sex.

Upon returning to the States, Dr. Haimoff served as a research Professor in Biology at UCLA, where he continued his studies into animal habitats and ecology. Haimoff was invited to communist China in 1984,1985 and 1986, to help set up game reserves and select protected areas to save wildlife, most especially a primate on the verge of extinction, the gibbon ape. Since then, Dr. Haimoff, a known expert on gibbons, has been an officially-sanctioned consultant to institutions and government entities on wildlife habitats, animal as well as plant biology, primate behavior, evolution and ecology. Haimoff has had several articles published in scientific journals.

2 Career
Haimoff was hired to create science TV segments at the KCET-TV (PBS/Los Angeles) Science and Society Unit (KCET). There, with senior producer Roger Bingham, Haimoff was co-producer on several mini-series, short episodes and half-hour segments like "Fat City," "The Thrifty Gene" and "Food for Thought" (about the obesity epidemic) as well as on topics like discoveries at the fringes of the cosmos and sub-atomic components of matter.

Topics previously found only in arcane scientific journals have been Haimoff's focus, such as “The Universe Revised,” about the origins of the heavens and the big bang theory as explored through the study of cosmic background radiation; black holes and quasars in “Matter of Fact;” and DNA fingerprinting and the future of genome-sequencing computers. Haimoff worked on KCET shows profiling the plight of the California condor, Asian orangutan and other almost-extinct apes. His research in the field of animal behavior became the subject of the PBS segment, “A Cat’s Purr,” and the Unit won two L.A.-area Emmy awards.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Haimoff, E. H. (1988). "The organization of repair in the songs of gibbons." Semiotica 68-1/2: 89-119.

Stanyon, R., L. Sineo, B. Chiarelli, A. Camperio-Ciani, A.R. Mootnick, E.H. Haimoff, D. Sutarman. (1987). "Banded karyotypes of the 44-chromosome gibbons." Folia Primatol. 48: 56-64.

Mootnick, A. R., E. H. Haimoff, K. Nyunt-Lwin. (1987). Conservation and captive management of hoolock gibbons in the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. AAZPA Annual Proceedings, Portland, Oregon.

Mootnick, A., M. Van Benscoten, E. Haimoff. (1987). "Dietary specializations of gibbons and a homeopathic approach towards maintaining captive specimens.  Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists." Amer. J. Primatol. 12: 361.

Haimoff, E. H., X.-J. Yang, S.-J. He, N. Chen. (1987). "Preliminary observations of wild black-crested gibbons (Hylobates concolor concolor) in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China." Primates 28(3): 319-335.

Haimoff, E. H., X.-J. Yang, S.-J. He, N. Chen. (1987). "Conservation of gibbons in Yunan Provence, China." Oryx 21(2): 168-173.

Mootnick, A. R. and E. H. Haimoff (1986). Species and sub-species identification of gibbons for use by zoological parks and breeding facilities. Eighth Annual Meeting,  American Society of Primatologists June 28 - July 1, 1986, Austin, Texas, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, 8(3):420.

Haimoff, E. H., X.-J. Yang, S.-J. He, N, Chen. (1986). "Census and survey of wild black-crested gibbons (Hylobates concolor concolor) in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China." Folia Primatol. 46(4): 205-214.

Haimoff, E.H. (1986). Preliminary observations on wild concolor gibbons (Hylobates concolor concolor). Am. J. Primatol. 10(4):405.

Haimoff, E. H., A. R. Mootnick, X.-J. Yang, S.-J. He, N, Chen. (1986). Conservation and captive management of gibbons in Yunnan Province, Peoples Republic of China. AAZPA Annual Proceedings, Minneapolis, Minnesota 109-126.

Haimoff, E. H. (1986). "The black crested gibbons of Yunan Province, China." Anthroquest, The Leakey Foundation News--Special Edition(35): 5-7.

Haimoff, E. H. and R. L. Tilson (1985). "Individuality in the female songs of wild Kloss' gibbons (Hylobates klossii) on Siberut Island, Indonesia." Folia Primatol. 44: 128-137.

Haimoff, E. H. and P. Gittins (1985). "Individuality in the songs of wild agile gibbons (Hylobates agilis) of Peninsular Malaysia." Amer. J. Primatol. 8: 239-247.

Haimoff, E. H. (1985). "Convergence in the duetting of monogamous old world primates." Journal of Human Evolution, 15: 51-59.

Haimoff, E. H. (1985). Gibbon songs: An acoustical, organizational and behavioural analysis. Primate Eye. 25 : 25-26.

Haimoff, E. H. (1985). "The organization of song in Muller's gibbon (Hylobates muelleri)." Amer. J. Primatol. 6(2): 173-191.

Haimoff, E. H. (1985). "Some observations on the singing behaviour of the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock)." J. Bom., Nat. Hist. Soc. 82(1): 1-12.

Raemaekers, J. J., P. M. Raemaekers, E. H. Haimoff. (1984). "Loud calls of the gibbon (Hylobates lar):  Repertoire, organization and context." Behaviour 91: 146-187.

Haimoff, E. H., S. P. Gittins, et al. (1984). A phylogeny and classification of gibbons based on morphology and ethology. The lesser apes:  evolutionary and behavioral biology. H. Preuschoft, D. J. Chivers, W. Y. Brockelman and N. Creel. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press: 614-632.

Haimoff, E. H. (1984). Acoustic and organizational features of gibbon songs. The Lesser Apes:  Evolutionary and behvioral biology. H. Preuschoft, D. J. Chivers, W. Y. Brockelamn and N. Creel. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press: 333-353.

Haimoff, E. H. (1984). "The organization of song in the agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis)." Folia Primatol. 42: 42-61.

Haimoff, E. H. (1984). "The organization of song in the Hainan black gibbon (Hylobates concolor hainanus)." Primates 25(2): 225-235.

Haimoff, E. L. (1983). Gibbon songs:  an acoustical, organizational and behavioral analysis. Veterinary Anatomy. Cambridge, University of Cambridge: 346.

Haimoff, E. H. and A. Mootnick (1983). Dichotomous key for the species identification of adult gibbons. AAZPA Regional Proceedings, AAZPA Regional Proceedings, Santa Barbara, CA, 76-78.

Haimoff, E. H. (1983). "Gibbon systematics for zoological parks." AAZPA Reg. Proc.: 69-75.

Haimoff, E. (1983). "Some notes on the breeding of siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) at San Francisco Zoo." Int. Zoo Yearb.: 1-8.

Caldecott, J. O. and E. H. Haimoff (1983). "Female solo singing by a wild lar gibbon in Peninsular Malaysia." Malay. Nat. J. 36: 167-173.

Haimoff, E. H., D. J. Chivers, S. P. Gittins, T. Whitten. (1982). "A phylogeny of gibbons (Hylobates spp.) based on morphological and behavioral characters." Folia primatol. 39(3/4): 213-237.

Haimoff, E. H. (1981). "Video analysis of siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) songs." Behaviour 76: 128-151.