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Noun- A specialist in the scientific study of ants

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  • After dismissing both cat-ant and catsect, he remembered that someone who studies ants is called a myrmecologist.
  • Carl Frederick's "The Study of Ants" seemed to be the real winner in this bunch - an myrmecologist (ant scientist) teaches an ant how to play chess, and the ants are...
  • American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology.
  • In any case, a while back myrmecologist Brian Fisher loaned me a captive colony of his beloved
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