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Someone who learned every animal's name, then named a thousand more nobody asked about.
means A scientist who studies animals — their behavior, anatomy, evolution, and classification.
from From the Greek 'zōion' (a living being, an animal) plus '-logos' (the study or account of), giving 'zoology' — literally 'the discourse of living things.' The same 'zōion' lurks in 'zoo,' 'protozoa,' and even 'zodiac,' that ancient circle of animal-shaped constellations. The '-logist' tail, naming the person who does the studying, is the same one that ends 'biologist' and 'geologist.' The English word emerged in the 17th century as naturalists began cataloguing the living world in earnest.
- naming rights
- They legally name new species, sometimes after celebrities
- field hazard
- Penguin researchers get bruised by indignant flippers
- poop science
- Scat analysis reveals diet, health, and territory
- long game
- Jane Goodall studied chimps for over sixty years
jane goodall — studied chimpanzees in gombe stream national park, tanzania for 60+ years starting 1960
dian fossey — researched mountain gorillas in rwanda for 18 years until her murder in 1985
konrad lorenz — austrian ethologist who won nobel prize in 1973 for animal behavior studies