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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

In 1985 a comprehensive effort to understand the impact of periodical cicadas on their predators by University of Arkansas entomologists, ornithologists and mammalogists also focused on Brood XIX—this time in the Ozark forests of Arkansas.

From Scientific American • Apr. 9, 2021

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

Other mammalogists who worked within the range of the vagrans-obscurus groups have avoided the problems in one way or another.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.