Colin Peter Groves was Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Professor Groves' research interests included human evolution, non–human primates, mammalian taxonomy, skeletal analysis, biological anthropology, ethnobiology, cryptozoology, biogeography and history of science. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, India, Iran, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was author of hundreds of scientific publications and many books in many fields of zoology.