Word: mammalogist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Kansas State College hired Freddie Hisaw as an assistant professor of zoology and mammalogist in 1919, he "didn't even know what a mammalogist was. It turned out to be a fancy name for rodent exterminator," says Frederick Lee Hisaw, now 64, "and one of the rodents I was to exterminate was the pocket gopher. But I soon became more interested in live pocket gophers than in dead ones...
According to the University mammalogist, however, the young hippos at the zoo are enjoying only a temporary freedom from subordination to their mates. "When they reach sexual maturity the female will become dominant, just as is the case with elks, elephants, and seals," he predicted...