Not long after the species' greatest champion, the American zoologist Dian Fossey, was killed in Rwanda in 1985, there were fewer than 300 of the giant primates left in the wild.
In the case of humans, one might think that it is hardly necessary to get the professional opinion of a zoologist on the matter.
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.
In a pinch, wild hermit crabs will take whatever they can get, says Rafael Lemaitre, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution.
But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.
The first estimate of the Virunga population, made by George Schaller then an eager young zoologist and now a veteran of the field was 450 individuals.
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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.
Another zoologist who is using robots to understand the behaviour of real animals is Daniel Germann, of the University of Zurich.
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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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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Japanese zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera, who was on board the submersible at the time of the encounter, was able to lure the giant squid with a one-meter (three-foot) -long diamond squid.
Joseph Tobias, a zoologist from Oxford University who was not involved in this study, said the findings were interesting.
Mr Gould is a zoologist and geologist at Harvard a practitioner, that is, of the two sciences that did the most to undermine traditional Christian belief.
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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