A carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) in London. R. I. Pocock was the expert called on when strange animals from Africa and the Himalaya needed a name. In the case of the Nandi bear, his view was that the reports described misidentified spotted hyenas. In 1932 the British Natural History Museum agreed. He examined the male skin from Michael Trent's marozi in 1931 and judged it a lion, probably three years old, remarkable for its distinct spots. Then came 1937. With Julian Huxley and Martin Hinton, he reviewed Frank Smythe's Yeti footprints and backed a Himalayan brown bear.
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Zoologist who attributed Nandi bear reports to spotted hyenas
Carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) who examined the skin and skull
Zoologist who backed the Himalayan brown bear identification