• Question: Have any of you came some zoology during your career as a scientist?

    Asked by louise123 to Hannah, Joanna, Joe, Luis, Vincent on 16 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Hannah Grist

      Hannah Grist answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Zoology is basically the science of looking at animals. I’ve done quite a bit of zoology as a scientist. For example, one of my experiments was looking at chickens, and whether they had friends. I have to make tiny lycra outfits for the chickens so we could tell them apart, and then watch on video to see how they got on with each other!

    • Photo: Joe Nunez-Mino

      Joe Nunez-Mino answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Zoology is a big part of my working life. I have always worked with all sorts of animals in the wild: mammals and insects mainly.

    • Photo: Vincent Keenan

      Vincent Keenan answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      I have actually had no experience as a zoologist! My background is in maths, but I do work with zoologists. Interdisciplinary science is very important!

    • Photo: Joanna Bagniewska

      Joanna Bagniewska answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Iā€™m a zoologist by training, so yes, I do come across it a lot ļŠ A zoologist investigates animals and the relationships between them. Because there are so many things that you can study about animals, there are all sorts of zoologists ā€“ the ones that research animal structure and function are the anatomists and physiologists, the ones that look at animal behaviour are the ethologists, the ones that look at groups of animals are the sociobiologists, and the ones that study the interactions between animals and their environment are the ecologists. I would consider myself a zoologist and an ecologist at the same time, because I look at what animals do in their natural habitat. This is a lot of fun, because I get to spend a lot of time outdoors, in quite exotic places at times.

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