Quotes About Zoology

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

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.

probably no one would have ever even heard of a yak if it hadn't been about the only animal that began with a y.

I really don't like monkeys.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

As a girl she dreamed of following Fossey and Goodall to Africa; by the time she got out of grad school, there were so few apes left that her best option was to work in a zoo; now she's looking at a job as a trainer of virtual pets.

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Believe it or not, Santa's reindeer exemplify the problem. Unlike other deer species, both male and female reindeer grow antlers. So at a glance they all look the same. But zoologically all male reindeer lose their antlers in the late fall, well before Christmas.9 In spite of their names, only some of which are feminine,10 all Santa's reindeer sport antlers. So they're all female. Which means Rudolph has been misgendered.

to call the study of chaos "nonlinear science" was like calling zoology "the study of non elephant animals.

THERE ARE CURRENTLY VERY CLOSE TO TEN thousand species of birds in the world, both beautiful and improbable, and they have contributed more to the study of zoology than almost any other group of animals (Konishi et al. 1989). The reasons are obvious: birds are diurnal, they are often easily observed and studied, and we like them.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Don't you own a dodo?

I'm the only millionaire zoologist there is.

A dork is a whale's penis.

A dynamic female zoology professor expanded her intellectual horizons by urging her to take the daring step of majoring in biology rather than English. In doing so, Carson discovered that science not only engaged her mind but gave her "something to write about.

Folk will tell ye that owls havena got an arsehole, so they canna pass the things they eat—like mice, aye? So the bones and the hairs and such are all made up into a ball, and the owl vomits them out, not bein' able to get rid of them out the other end.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

I love animals. I'm a big animal lover.

Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants

The boa constrictor is the only living animal whose common name is exactly the same as its scientific name.

Ursus arctos isn't the polar bear, it's the brown bear. Ursus means "bear" in Latin and arctos means "bear" in Greek. The Arctic is named after the bear, not the other way around; it

All zoology assumes from our side a methodical Einfühlung into animal behavior, with the participation of the animal in our perceptive life and the participation of our perceptive life in animality.