Zoology

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Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of non human animals.

The word zoology comes from Greek Ζωο, zoo ("animal"), and λογος, -logy ("the study of").

The pronunciation of "zoology" is [zoh-ol-uh-jee], however it is common to hear this word mispronounced as [zu-ol-uh-jee], due to the familiarity of the word "zoo" which is an abbreviation of "zoological garden."

[edit] Notable zoologists

• Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
• Aristotle
• Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
• Archie Carr (Herpetology, esp. sea turtles)
• Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative morphology)
• Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
• Richard Dawkins (ethology)
• Dian Fossey (primatology)
• Arthur Davis Hasler (limnology, ichthyology, salmon homing)
• Victor Hensen (planktology)
• Libbie Hyman (invertebrate zoology)
• Steve Irwin (herpetology)
• William Kirby (father of entomology)
• Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
• Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
• David W. Macdonald (wild mammals)
• Ernst Mayr (evolutionary biologist)
• Desmond Morris (ethology)
• Ron Nowak (wild mammals)
• Richard Owen (proposed archetypes for major groups of organisms)
• Roger Tory Peterson (ornithology)
• William Emerson Ritter (marine biology)
• Thomas Say (entomology)
• Ernest P. Walker (wild mammals)
• E. O. Wilson (entomology, founder of sociobiology)
• Jakob van Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)

[edit] Sources and external links

• A Study Guide to Invertebrate Zoology ~ at
• An online encyclopedia of zoology
• Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology
• An online dissection pictures of animals
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zoology Dictionary.com's discussion of pronunciation