Quotes About Zoology

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Interestingly enough, it is now known that play behaviour is not limited to birds and mammals. Monitor lizards, turtles, crocodiles and even fish and cephalopods have been reported to engage in behaviours that do not seem to serve any other purpose than simply having fun.27,28 If all these animals could play, we are certain that Mesozoic dinosaurs could, too.

The windowless room where the po`ouli cells are kept alive—sort of—is called the Frozen Zoo.

Jean-Léopold-Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier

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Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of The Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: "Ch. LXXII. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island."

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

horse's body parts are called its

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

Not until 1902, at an early meeting of the International Congress of Zoology, did naturalists begin at last to show a spirit of compromise and adopt a universal code. Taxonomy

intense stereotypies—stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing—almost never occur in the wild

Animals have no rights

American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11

This was a natural step, because whereas behaviorists were mostly psychologists, ethologists were mostly zoologists. They discovered that behavior is not nearly as fluid and hard to define as it might seem. It has a structure, which can be quite stereotypical, such

The kangaroo has a double penis - one for week days and one for holidays.

Ihmiskunta on lehmien loinen samalla tavoin kuin lapamato on ihmisen loinen. Ihmiskunta on imeytynyt lehmien utareisiin iilimadon tavoin. Ihminen on lehmän loinen, niin luultavasti määrittelisi ihmisen eläinopissa ei-ihminen.

Teresa las mira con simpatía y piensa que la humanidad vive a costa de las vacas, del mismo modo en que la tenía vive a costa del hombre: se ha enganchado a su teta como una sanguijuela. El hombre es un parásito de la vaca, así definiría probablemente un no-hombre al hombre en su zoología

Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it. No, actually it isn't, said Tiffany. Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.

Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.

The word logos itself is a prime example, beginning its history as a word charged with religious power, and referring to the word of wisdom and truth. By the time of Aristotle, logos had lost its philosophical connotations and had come to mean the "study of" something: biology, the study of life; zoology, the study of animal forms; and theology, the study of God.