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mammalogy

mammalogy

1 7.9
The study of mammals, animals that have hair and feed their young with milk
  • noun
  • /ˌmæməˈlɑdʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mamología
  • The discovery of the okapi and other extraordinary creatures of Central Africa prompted Dr. Joel Allen, chairman of the Museum's Department of Mammalogy, and other curators of our Museum and the Board of Trustees to think up a collecting expedition in the Congo, which was just then being transferred to Belgium as a colony.
  • Journal of Mammalogy
  • Mammalogy department
  • ornithology and mammalogy

Examples

  • This exciting opportunity is open to graduate students studying mammalogy.

    Academic text (2011)

  • For details about this opportunity, please visit the American Society of Mammalogy website (www.mammalsociety.org) or **55;24602;TOOLONG.

    Academic text (2011)

  • I took a mammalogy class 30 years ago.

    Blog text (17)

  • Journal of Mammalogy 4: 808-816.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Primatology, mammalogy, all that shizzle.

    Attack the Block (2011)

  • In the summer of 1982, as part of my research into the evolution of the mongooses, I visited the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History.

    Academic text (1990)

  • They will provide input and guidance for BioScience, particularly in the areas of environmental microbiology, human biology, and mammalogy.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Nancy B. Simmons, Voss's wife, who is also an associate curator in the mammalogy department and specializes in bats, was a coinvestigator throughout the project.

    Academic text (2000)

  • "There is a growing idea that we don't know what's in these vanishing areas," said Robert S. Voss, an associate curator in the Museum's mammalogy department, when I visited him in his loft-like white office on the fifth floor.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Matthew E. Gompper is an associate professor of mammalogy at the University of Missouri, where he studies various aspects of mammal behavior.

Synonyms

zoology
vsmammalogy
  • Specialized
11 4.2

Study of animals, including how they live and behave

focuses on one specific animal group rather than all animals
zoological science
vsmammalogy
  • Specialized
4.1

The study of animals and how they live

concentrates on a single animal group not the whole animal science

Surface Forms

mammalogy singular
mammalogies plural

Morphology

mammalogy = mammal (transparent) = mammal + ology

The word transparently means the study of mammals, built directly from 'mammal' plus the productive learned suffix '-ology'.

Etymology

Mammalogy comes from mamma meaning 'breast' and the ending -logy meaning 'study'. It is the study of mammal animals that feed their young with milk, so the name links 'breast' to the animals it studies.