是包括那些在船上的博物学家在内的众多定居到岛屿上的探险者使这个研究成为可能。

What made the research possible was that many of the explorers who colonized the islands included naturalists on their boats.

菲茨洛伊计划驾驶“贝格尔号”海船做一次环球航行，他想要一位博物学家加盟，有人推荐了达尔文。

FitzRoy was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship called the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended8.

它已被认为已经灭绝了近80年，但已宣布塔斯马尼亚虎活蹦乱跳的一个勇敢的英国博物学家。

It had been considered extinct for nearly 80 years, but the Tasmanian tiger has been declared alive and kicking by an intrepid group of British naturalists.

九岁时，他的父亲，一位在昆士兰海岸开设爬行动物公园的博物学家，教他在夜间跟踪鳄鱼并把它们拖出水面。

At nine, his father, a naturalist who had started a reptile park on the Queensland coast, taught him to stalk crocs at night and lug them out of the water.