William Stanley (mammalogist)

William T. "Bill" Stanley (ca. 1957 – October 6, 2015) was an American mammalogist who was a manager of the collections at one of the world’s largest natural history museums and a student of the mammals of eastern Africa. He was an evolutionary biologist and mammalogist, and at the time of his death was the Director of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH) Collections Center and the Collection Manager of the “FMNH Collection of Mammals”. Stanley studied the biogeography, ecology, evolution, and systematics of shrews, bats and rodents that live on mountains within Tanzania and surrounding countries.

Stanley and colleagues discovered multiple species new to science, including shrews, bats, rodents, frogs and primates while surveying the fauna of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Stanley led the first ever mammal surveys of various mountains in Tanzania, including Kilimanjaro, Meru, Ngorongoro, Udzungwa, and Rungwe . Two notable discoveries include the kipunji, the first new genus of African monkey in nearly 100 years, and Thor’s Hero Shrew, the second species of mammal with a bizarre spinal morphology. Stanley created the innovative bi-lingual “Mammals of Tanzania” website that provides identification tools in English and Kiswahili for skulls and skins of mammals of the country.

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