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  • noun Plural form of mammalogist.

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Examples

  • Independent scientists eventually obtained a summary through the federal Freedom of Information Act, revealing that Palin had lied: The state mammalogists concurred with the Fish and Wildlife Service determination that Arctic sea ice is melting at an extraordinary rate and threatens the polar bear with extinction.

    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award 2009

  • However, the UBC campus is overrun by black squirrels that I have been told by mammalogists are in fact Eastern grey squirrels, not black fox squirrels.

    Sciurus niger - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • However, the UBC campus is overrun by black squirrels that I have been told by mammalogists are in fact Eastern grey squirrels, not black fox squirrels.

    Sciurus niger - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • This was confirmed, the way all mammalogists confirm it - they collected whale poop.

    Archive 2009-03-01 DNLee 2009

  • This was confirmed, the way all mammalogists confirm it - they collected whale poop.

    The Kingdom of the Blue Whale DNLee 2009

  • Now, this isn't brand new information, as Meijaard suggested it in print for BBC Wildlife Magazine (March 2006), but it should provide an objective appraisal of the animal from professional mammalogists familiar with that region's fauna.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • This division of the mangabeys has been mostly accepted by mammalogists, but not universally so (McKenna & Bell 1997 still treat all mangabeys as the single genus Cercocebus, for example).

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Shrews have proved very good at colonizing islands, and only within recent decades have mammalogists started to properly describe and differentiate the island endemic white-toothed shrews of the European islands.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Shrews have proved very good at colonizing islands, and only within recent decades have mammalogists started to properly describe and differentiate the island endemic white-toothed shrews of the European islands.

    The first new European mammal in 100 years? You must be joking Darren Naish 2006

  • The mammalogists assert the wolf is a natural check on too many deer.

    Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

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