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naturalist

[nach-er-uh-list, nach-ruh-] / ˈnætʃ ər ə lɪst, ˈnætʃ rə- /


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The TV naturalist remembers his first trip to see gorillas in Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains in 1978—and checks in on the descendants of an ape he met then—in this involving documentary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

This is a delicate, confidently imagined fiction made with the eyes of a naturalist, the heart of a believer in family, and a sensibility with room for both the Pythonesque and the Lynchian.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

His family encouraged him to send it to the esteemed naturalist and helped him track down an address.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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