Elliott H. Haimoff

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Elliott Haimoff

Elliott Haimoff (b. 1955; Los Angeles, CA, USA) is a biologist, primatologist and documentary filmmaker. In 1990 Haimoff founded Global Science Productions to develop and distribute educational television programs and news segments about space, biology, health, sports and nature.

In the 1970s, Haimoff led a team of researchers on an expedition to record and remotely transmit real-time video of endangered primates in tropical rain-forests.

Early life and education

Haimoff received his Ph.D. in Biology from England's Pembroke College. Evolutionary biologist and curator of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, Dr. Robert Martin, was Haimoff’s doctoral thesis academic examiner; Haimoff served as a contributor on Prof. Martin’s most popular book, “How We Do It,” about human mating and reproduction.

Career

Haimoff returned to the US to teach at UCLA as a Research Professor in Biology. There he conducted further research aimed at preserving the gibbon ape, a primate on the verge of extinction. The communist Chinese government invited Haimoff to analyze the remote forested regions of the country to select parcels designated as wildlife protection reserves. Haimoff’s articles on plant biology, primate behavior, evolution and ecology have been published in scientific journals.

Haimoff was a producer at the Science and Society Unit at the Los Angeles PBS station, KCET, headed by Roger Bingham. There, Haimoff produced science segments on cosmic background radiation, black holes, cold dark matter and quasars, on DNA fingerprinting and genome-sequencing computers. The unit won two Los Angeles Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in the local programming of the Greater Los Angeles Area.

The company's films about NASA, like Apollo 13: Aborted Mission, and Moonwalkers, have been featured in many publications including several mentions in Variety magazine, Billboard Magazine and TV Guide over the past 30 years. Haimoff's space exploration movies profiling female astronauts, like Dr. Sally Ride: Space Pioneer and another show about the late Judy Resnick, Women Space Pioneers, were reviewed in The Citizen newspaper (Houston's daily newspaper for the Cape Canaveral area) in a 1995 piece about the 10-year memorial of the astronauts who perished in the Challenger disaster, and the Los Angeles Times spotlighted Space Frontiers: The Moon, Mars and Beyond.

Many of the full-length documentaries in Global Science Productions' library focus on controversial topics facing society, including cloning of human beings, genetic engineering/modification of food crops, veterinary stem-cell therapies to regenerate tissue, and humankind’s future destiny in space.

According to Kristi Hauta, of San Diego-based VetStem Biopharma, Haimoff's documentary Animal Pharm: Where Beasts Meet Biotech (2019), "...provides a great service to the public by providing legitimate education about cell therapy in the veterinary field and how this can assist the field of human stem cell therapy." Animal Pharm received the award for Best Nature and Animals Film in the Brentwood and Pacific Palisades International Film Festival.

The space publication Final Frontier hailed Global Science Productions as “far and away the leader in space exploration programs.” Satellite network “The Einstein Channel” aired hundreds of Global Science Productions’ episodes on the early “space race” days of NASA, which premiered when the new network launched.

Haimoff was the last journalist to interview science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury prior to Bradbury's death, for the show "Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling."

Haimoff conducted the last interview capturing team owner Jerry "Doc" Buss on camera (Buss died in 2013), for the show "33 Str8," about the LA Lakers winning streak.

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. (1986). "Convergence in the duetting of monogamous old world primates." J. Hum. Evol. 15: 51-59.

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." J. Hum. Evol. 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 behavioral 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). "Occurrence of anti-resonance in the song of the siamang." Amer. J. Primatol. 5: 249-256.

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.

Haimoff, E. H. (1977). Hoolocks in spring. At the Zoo. 14: 2.

Haimoff*, E. H. The concolor gibbon, Hylobates concolor, of Hainan Island and Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China: a review of past studies with recommendations for future research., UCLA.

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