Career
He specialised in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy, and he was also a painter, often illustrating his books about animals and mentor Born at Kutná Hora, he was a professor at the Charles University"s Faculty of Science and also worked as a zoologist at the Prague National Museum. With Colin Groves, Mazák described, named, and classified the early hominin Homo ergaster.
He also described the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris corbetti.
He died in Prague.
