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mammalogist

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[ma-mahl-uh-jist, muh-] / mæˈmɑl ə dʒɪst, mə- /

noun

  • mammalogists
    plural
  1. a specialist in mammalogy.


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Prof Flannery, a mammalogist, says he stumbled across them and immediately knew they were from ancient monotremes.

From BBC ● May 27, 2024

“We don’t have baseline data,” says Natalie Mastick, a marine mammalogist and postdoc at Yale University’s Peabody Museum.

From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024

“So it is really valuable to understand that it still occurs in the Cyclops Mountains,” said Kristofer Helgen, a mammalogist and director of the Australian Museum Research Institute who wasn’t involved in the expedition.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Indonesia's island of Flores is a remarkable laboratory for the island effect, also called "Foster's rule," based on observations by mammalogist J. Bristol Foster in the 1960s.

From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023

He’s chief mammalogist with the Company science division; we exchange information.

From Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

Names aside, he expects most marine mammalogists will be on board with the proposed species; many have suspected species-level differences among the well-studied whales of the Pacific Northwest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

Herpetologists, mammalogists … I’m sure there are botanists who collect a lot of data on insects because insects eat plants all the time.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2022

If the bloodied roadkill was something museum mammalogists wanted and needed, taxidermists would work their magic, and the animals would emerge, transformed, as taxidermied fodder for dioramas or other scientific displays.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016

He belongs to a new generation of mammalogists, who find new species by combing through dusty museum collections, sequencing DNA, and mounting rugged expeditions to Africa, Asia, and South America.

From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2016

Let the mammalogists of the world face this fact.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday

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