Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents.
She has conducted fieldwork in Gabon, Sabah (Borneo), Peru, and Bolivia.
[1][2] Louise Hickok Emmons earned her PhD from Cornell University in 1975 and wrote a thesis entitled, "Ecology and Behavior of African Rainforest Squirrels.
Louise H. Emmons described several new taxa of mammals: She also introduced the new taxon name Olallamys for a genus of spiny rats.
[12] In honor of Louise H. Emmons, one taxonomic patronym was given for a rodent with the species name emmonsae: