page_title: Martin Moynihan
hierarchical_section_title: Martin Moynihan
caption_attribution_description: Creator: Martin H. Moynihan Local number: SIA2012-1872 Summary: Acc 01-096, Box 1, Folder 10; Page from Martin H. Moynihan's field notes on Cyanerpes or Honeycreepers, page 52, February 24, 1958. These observations were made on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, from 1957 to 1963. Dates: 1958 Repository: &lt;a href="http://siarchives.si.edu" rel="nofollow"&gt;Smithsonian Institution Archives&lt;/a&gt; Related blog post: &lt;a href="http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/2012/01/a-behaviorist-in-panama-.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;A Behaviorist in Panama&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://collections.si.edu" rel="nofollow"&gt;View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: Martin Humphrey Moynihan was a behavioral evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who studied under Ernst Mayr and Niko Tinbergen, and was a contemporary of Desmond Morris. He was the founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
  His early research was mainly on seagulls. Later work included the octopus, and Terence McKenna quotes Moynihan in his book Food of the Gods as saying, with respect to the octopus' ability to change its body's shape, texture and color, "Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts."
  He was married to Olga F. Linares, a Panamanian-American anthropologist and STRI senior research scientist.
  Moynihan died in Albi, France in 1996 of lung cancer, aged 68.
context_section_description: Martin Humphrey Moynihan (5 February 1928 – 3 December 1996) was a behavioral evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who studied under Ernst Mayr and Niko Tinbergen, and was a contemporary of Desmond Morris. He was the founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama.
  His early research was mainly on seagulls. Later work included the octopus, and Terence McKenna quotes Moynihan in his book Food of the Gods as saying, with respect to the octopus' ability to change its body's shape, texture and color, "Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts."
  He was married to Olga F. Linares, a Panamanian-American anthropologist and STRI senior research scientist.
  Moynihan died in Albi, France in 1996 of lung cancer, aged 68.
caption: Moynihan's field notes and drawing of a Honeycreeper on Barro Colorado Island, 1958
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