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  • noun A person who studies mammals and related taxa.

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Examples

  • I'm neither a sociologist, nor a psychologist, nor a mammologist ... but I have observed quite a number of mamme and mammoni.

    Juliet Linley: Of Breasts and Men 2009

  • "'A local resident of Sablayan first described the flying fox in great detail to us, but we were unconvinced until the species showed up in our nets, 'said CBCPV mammologist Jake Esselstyn." ...

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Give a mammologist a set of teeth and ask them for the diet of the ‘unknown’ mammal.

    Tiktaalik makes another gap - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Women who have problems with the ovaries and breast pain, which may indicate the formation of hardenings, should undergo examinations at least once a year by a gynecologist and mammologist.

    News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times. 2010

  • Jim Stuart, NM Game & Fish mammologist will be here to teach us more about long-tailed weasels and badgers at the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park as well as the river otter and black-tailed ferret re-introduction projects elsewhere in the state.

    DesertUSA News 2009

  • "Fifty percent of species are declining and 5 percent of species are in an upward recovery - that's just not enough," Jan Schipper, the mammologist who coordinated the study for the IUCN, told Scientific American.

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

  • Port Elizabeth marine mammologist Dr Vic Cocroft would on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It woe-betides the AGW cause that Australia’s best known “climate” scientist is actually an Australian mammologist and palaeontologist.

    YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit 2007

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