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One skilled in the study of mammals.

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  • As a mammalogist, road kill is a laboratory specimen and this is a teaching moment.
  • Eminent mammalogist Dr. Valerius Geist was charged with investigating the incident.
  • He does bear some resemblance to my old University of Florida professor J.F. Eisenberg, who was probably the world's leading carnivore mammalogist.
  • Problems are greater for other species, as Tim Flannery, a well-known Australian mammalogist and conservationist, makes clear in The Weather Makers.
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