Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Jun. 2011
Zoology is one of the branches of the biology, one that is interested in animals in a complete and comprehensive sense of the term. The word zoology comes from the Greek in which zoo means "animal" and logos "science" or "knowledge". Zoology works with different elements related to animals, from anatomical issues such as how the organism is composed, passing through questions of behavior, habits and reactions to different situations. Zoology classifies animals into different groups taking into account issues such as the anatomy, the habitat in which they exist, the feeding, social and individual behaviors, etc.
We can say that although the idea of zoology existed before Darwin, it was this English scientist and researcher who led it to a stupendous growth at the collect and publish information and data on countless numbers of animal species, their morphic characteristics, behaviors, habitats and the rest. Since then, zoology has established different criteria and classifications that allow us to know more detail the different groups of animals that we know on the planet and that until now remained without sort out. In addition, zoology also studies with great interest the emergence of animals on the planet, that is, their biological history, which is, ultimately, also the history of the human being.
Within zoology there are different branches that deal with specific questions relating to various groups of animals. Among them we can mention zoography, one that describes the animals around their specific habitat; anatomy, or one that studies the organisms of the animals; the physiology animal, interested in him functioning physical and chemical of the different functions of animal organisms; the ethology, interested in how animals behave in specific environments including both group and individual issues, habits and lifestyles, etc. Then we can also find branches of zoology destined to work with specific types and species of animals.
Topics in Zoology