Sentences with word «mammalogist»

«It's important we have this information,» says Ted Cranford, a marine mammalogist at San Diego State University.

Overall, the saga of M. hotaula shows «that there are probably even more species of beaked whales that we don't know about,» says Phil Clapham, a marine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington.

These inconsistencies can be resolved by the simple hypothesis that placental mammals originated in Gondwanaland, not Laurasia, says mammalogist Tim Flannery, director of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide.

Today in Biology Letters, they introduce Thor's hero shrew (S. thori), named for mammalogist Thorvald Holmes, but invoking the Norse god of strength.

There, the eminent marine mammalogist Kenneth Norris took him on as a graduate student.

Cranford subscribes to what marine mammalogists call the big bang theory, which argues, among other things, that a sperm whale's head is a gigantic noisemaker.

Entangled whales often drown or die from starvation or injuries; overall, 58 % of the right whale deaths since 2009 were due to entanglements, a big jump from 25 % between 2000 and 2008, says marine mammalogist Scott Kraus of the New England Aquarium in Boston.

Scientific American writer Kate Wong spoke with mammalogist Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about this question.

«We stand at the threshold of a dramatic change in the picture of mammalian evolutionary history,» argues mammalogist Thomas Martin of the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt, Germany in an accompanying commentary.

«We wanted to make this one - stop shopping for scientists and policymakers,» says IUCN and Conservation International mammalogist Jan Schipper, who coordinated the project.

The new database «is the most valuable effort to date to summarize the state of conservation and threats to the world's mammal populations,» says mammalogist Don Wilson of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «By detailing threats at the species level, it will now be possible for management agencies in every country in the world to prioritize their efforts to try to mitigate these threats.»

There will likely be a payoff for basic research too, says mammalogist Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who in 2005 compiled a similar database encompassing about 4500 mammals.

Mike Archer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of New South Wales, Australia, calls this «a delightfully innovative explanation for something that's long puzzled mammalogists.»

In an effort to be fair to entomologists, herpetologists, cetologists, and mammalogists around the world, here is a list, in no particular order, of just a few of the exciting new species discovered in 2016.

He does bear some resemblance to my old University of Florida professor J.F. Eisenberg, who was probably the world's leading carnivore mammalogist.

Two small marsupial species, made famous for their suicidal mating habits, have been officially placed on Australia's Endangered list, following their discovery by a QUT mammalogist.

This study was funded by grants from the Animal Behavior Society, American Society of Mammalogists, American Society of Primatologists and Princeton University.

It was a matter of bad timing, says Scott Wright, a marine mammalogist at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

A few years before, Norris and another student had shown that dolphins make their sounds somewhere in their nasal passages, not in the larynx, as many marine mammalogists had assumed.

# 27 - In discussions with anthropologists, veterinarians, mammalogists and biochemists, they can not believe that anyone is actually accusing breastfeeding of causing decay.

To modern biologists, a structure as big and as odd as the spermaceti organ cries out for an evolutionary explanation, and marine mammalogists have argued for years over its function.

He took the fossils to his colleague Alan Ziegler, a mammalogist at the Bishop Museum, and later they and colleagues found remains on four other islands: Hawaii, Kauai, Molokai, and Oahu.

The large size of the survey «is simply impressive and exciting,» says Atle Mysterud, a mammalogist at the University of Oslo in Norway.

When it comes to how many offspring a male can father, «it seems that compared to body mass, tooth size is relatively unimportant,» says Joanne Isaac, a mammalogist at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, who was not part of the study team.

«The biggest surprise was the consistency of the relationship,» says co-author Ian Boyd, a mammalogist at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom.

Wes Sechrest, a mammalogist who runs an organization called Global Wildlife Conservation, agrees with much of the analysis.

Over the last few days, Peruvian researchers have reached out to colleagues abroad, prompting a small flood of letters questioning the plans, including from University of Oklahoma professor Michael Mares, head of the American Society of Mammalogists.

Administrators at the University of San Marcos in Lima have unleashed a swarm of angry entomologists, mammalogists, and paleontologists with plans to construct a building next to the city's famed Natural History Museum.

Mammalogists have proposed several functions — from keeping the penis stiff during copulation to signaling the fitness of a male — but, so far, the only idea with strong support comes from a study of mice in which the width of the baculum was tied to how many offspring the males sired.

All procedures were consistent with guidelines set by the American Society of Mammalogists (Gannon et al. 2007) and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at California State University Fullerton.

2008 American Society of Mammalogists.

«The irony is state governments and the federal government are spending millions of dollars to preserve species and then... (you have) Wildlife Services out there killing the same animals,» says the president of the American Society of Mammalogists, Michael Mares.

Biography Dr. Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and mammalogist and author of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, a bestselling book on climate change.