Zoology

Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals.

Notable zoologists

• Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
• Aristotle
• Archie Carr, (June 16, 1909-May 21, 1987) (Herpetology), esp. sea turtles
• Charles Darwin
• Dian Fossey (primatology)
• Arthur David Hasler, (January 5, 1908-March 23, 2001) (limnology, ichthyology, salmon homing)
• Victor Hensen, (February 10, 1835-April 5, 1924) (planktology)
• Libbie Hyman (invertebrate zoology)
• William Kirby (father of entomology)
• Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
• Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
• David W. Macdonald (wild mammals)
• Ernst Mayr (1905-2005), influential evolutionary biologist, one of the founders of the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary theory in the 1940s.
• Desmond Morris (ethology)
• Ron Nowak (wild mammals)
• Roger Tory Peterson (ornithology)
• Thomas Say (entomology)
• Ernest P. Walker (wild mammals)
• E. O Wilson, b. 1929, (entomology, founder of sociobiology)
• Jakob van Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)