Zoology

Zoology Quite simply, zoology is the division of biology that deals with the animal kingdom. It’s the scientific study of everything having to do with animals, just as botany is the scientific study of plants. Zoology is a huge field that covers the classification of every animal on earth as well as many broader fields of experimentation and inquiry related to animal life, and the field keeps expanding due to scientific advances that continue to open new areas of research.

Defining zoology was relatively simple back in the 4th Century BC when the ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, gave us some of the first broad classifications of living things. In his treatise Meteorology, Aristotle first (and logically) divided all living things into plants and animals. It could be said that as soon as he wrote those words, biology, botany and zoology were born.