What is Zoology?
'''Zoology''' is the [[science]] of studying [[animal]] life. It is part of [[biology]]''. ''Animal life is classified into groups called ''[[phyla]]'', of which there are at least [[List of animal phyla|thirty]].<ref>{{cite web |website=[[Britannica]] |title=Zoology {{!}} Definition, History, Examples, Importance, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/zoology |date=October 5, 2024 |access-date=December 3, 2024}}</ref> '''Zoologists''' are scientists who study animals. They may work in [[Laboratory|laboratories]], or do [[field research]]. The methods are many and various. At the heart, they cover the [[structure]], [[Function (biology)|function]], [[ecology]] and [[evolution]] of animals. The structure is investigated by [[dissection]], and [[Microscope|microscopic]] examination. The function is investigated by [[observation]] and [[experiment]]. [[Palaeontology]] supplies information about [[Extinction|extinct]] animals. Zoologists may be employed by [[Zoo|zoos]], [[Museum|museums]], [[University|universities]], universities, [[Non-profit organization|non-profit organizations]].{{cn|date=December 2024}} == Select zoologists == {{Div col}} * [[Aristotle]] * [[John Ray]] * [[Julian Huxley]] * [[Ernst Haeckel]] * [[Jennifer Clack]] * [[Charles Darwin]] * [[Conrad Gessner]] * [[Richard Dawkins]] * [[Stephen Jay Gould]] * [[Henry Walter Bates]] * [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] * [[John Gould]] ([[ornithology]]) * [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]] * [[Dian Fossey]] ([[primatology]]) * [[Jane Goodall]] (primatology) * [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]] * [[Fritz Müller]] * [[Gilbert White]] * [[Francis Crick]] * [[James D. Watson]] * [[August Weismann]] * [[John Maynard Smith]] * [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] * [[Konrad Lorenz]] ([[ethology]]) * [[Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck]] * [[Louis Leakey]] (palaeoanthropology) * [[Louis Agassiz]] ([[malacology]], [[ichthyology]]) * [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (father of [[systematics]]) * [[Richard Owen]] ([[Natural History Museum]]) * [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] * [[E.O. Wilson]]