Wiktionary
n. 1 one who believes in the dominance of man's animal nature in behavior. 2 a sensualist. 3 one who believes that microorganisms cause disease. 4 a writer of animal stories. 5 a painter or sculptor whose primary subject is animals.
Wikipedia
Animalist is one of the networks under Discovery Digital Networks based upon animal-themed video content. Animalist, along with Revision3, TestTube, and the Defranco Network make-up the web-original video arm for Discovery Communications. It launched in Fall of 2013.
Usage examples of "animalist".
We saw the realist run into the naturalist, the naturalist into the animalist, the psychologist into the sexualist, and the sudden reaction to romance, in the form of what is called the historic novel, the receipt for which can be prescribed by any competent pharmacist.