Zoology
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Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of non-human animals.
The word zoology comes from Greek ζῴον, zoon ("animal"), and λογία, -logy ("the study of"), from λόγος, word, speech.
The pronunciation of "zoology" is [zoʊˈɑləʤɪ], however it is common to hear this word mispronounced as [zuˈɑləʤɪ], due to the familiarity of the word "zoo" which is an abbreviation of "zoological garden."
[edit] Notable zoologists
In alphabetical order by surname:
- Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
- Aristotle
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
- Archie Carr (Herpetology, esp. sea turtles)
- Eugenie Clark (Ichthyology)
- Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative morphology)
- Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
- Richard Dawkins (ethology)
- Dian Fossey (primatology)
- Jane Goodall (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)
- Jakob van Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)
- Ernest P. Walker (wild mammals)
- E. O. Wilson (entomology, founder of sociobiology)
[edit] Sources and external links
Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject:
- A Study Guide to Invertebrate Zoology ~ at Wikibooks
- 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
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