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, 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.
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, 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.