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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

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Eleven Enlightenments: Koala

 

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A group of Desmarest's hutias

 

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Desmarest’s Hutia (Giant Rodents of Cuba)

 

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Interesting facts about Rose breasted cockatoo by weird square

 

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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest. Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort. In 1820 he was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
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