title: Hisashi Abe
text: # Hisashi Abe
  
  Hisashi Abe (阿部 永, Abe Hisashi, born 1933) is a Japanese mammalogist and a former professor of Zoology at Hokkaido University Sapporo in Hokkaidō, Japan. He has authored a variety of publications on the taxonomy of various mammal species endemic to East Asia. He was formerly the president of Mammal Society of Japan.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Abe was born during 1933 in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima.
  
  