Henry Walter Bates

Explorer

Birthday February 8, 1825

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Leicester, England

DEATH DATE Feb 16, 1892 (67)

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About

Naturalist who traversed the Amazon rainforest and noted animal mimicry.

Before Fame

He accompanied the expedition of Alfred Russel Wallace, his mentor and teacher, to the tropics.

Trivia

By recording the different ways rainforest animals and insects imitated other life forms or inanimate objects, he lent further support to the theory of evolution.

Family Life

He was born in Leicester into a middle class family.

Associated With

One of the goals of his journey was to find evidence for Charles Darwin theory on the origin of species.