Joseph Tobias, a zoologist from Oxford University who was not involved in this study, said the findings were interesting.

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In the case of humans, one might think that it is hardly necessary to get the professional opinion of a zoologist on the matter.

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The exhibition also explores other Welsh links with Antarctica - a geologist from St Fagans, a stowaway from Newport and the Antarctic work of a zoologist from St Brides Major who later became director of the National Museum.

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In 1987, Mr. Gilman sent John Lukas, a zoologist who heads White Oak's conservation program, to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to work with pygmy tribes to capture an okapi, an extremely rare animal that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.

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In a pinch, wild hermit crabs will take whatever they can get, says Rafael Lemaitre, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Mr Kingdon's fascination with bronze dates back to his childhood growing up in Uganda, the son of a noted English zoologist and artist, Jonathan Kingdon.

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Suspecting it might be a new species, they photographed it so their zoologist colleagues could examine it more closely.

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Leading "Team Rat" is Anthony Martin, a 58-year-old white-bearded zoologist, whom some have called "the Pied Piper" for his role in the rat cull.

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It wasn't until the 1960s that a plausible explanation for the dance was proposed, by Nobel Prize winning zoologist Karl von Frisch.

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