Citations:chiropterologist

Noun: "someone who studies bats (the flying mammal)"

 * 1958 — "The Usefulness of Bats", Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Volume 55, page 155:
 * Dr. Adam Krzanowski, a chiropterologist of Poland, has sent us a note on bats as an important secondary aid in locust control.
 * 1976 — Gerald L. Wood, The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats, Guinness Superlatives Limited (1976), ISBN 9780900424601, page 51:
 * John Edwards Hill, however, a chiropterologist at the British Museum (Natural History), thinks that this information is misleading.
 * 1996 — William G. Lycan, Consciousness and Experience, MIT Press (1996), ISBN 9780262121972, pages 66-67:
 * And the functional state of the bat having its sonar sensation is of course entirely different from that of the chiropterologist examining the bat's neurophysiology.
 * 2001 — Kathleen Meyer, Barefoot Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife, Villard (2001), ISBN 9780375504389, page 88:
 * Several years later, after reading three of his books on bats, I placed a call to the venerable chiropterologist Dr. M. Brock Fenton, known as the "batman" of York University in Toronto.
 * 2005 — Jay Ingram, Theatre of the Mind, HarperCollins (2010), ISBN 9781443402316, unnumbered page:
 * The curious thing was that Nagel is not a chiropterologist, a zoologist or even a biologist; he is a philosopher.
 * 2011 — Michael J. Harvey, J. Scott Altenbach, & Troy L. Best, Bats of the United States and Canada, Johns Hopkins University Press (2011), ISBN 9781421401911, page 3:
 * In addition, many regional bat-oriented meetings are attended not only by scientists who study bats (chiropterologists) and personnel of state, federal, and provincial conservation agencies, but also by lay naturalists and other individuals interested in bats.