The zoology (of the Greek terms ζoον i.e. zoon, animal, and λόγος i.e. logos, the speech) is the science which studies the animal.

During the 19th century the disciplinary fields specialized according to the studied animal group appeared. The principal ones are:

• the Entomology , the study of the Insect S

• the Herpétologie , the study of the Reptile S and Amphibian S
• the Ichtyology , the study of the Poisson S
• the Mammalogie , the Mammalian study of the S
• the Ophiology , the study of the Snake S
• the Ornithology , the study of the Bird X
• the Malacology , the study of the Mollusc S
• the Arachnologie , the study of the Arachnida S
• the Cancerology , the study of the Crustacean S

Institutional specialists were trained to study of such animal group, to identify the species of them, to work out of it or to re-examine classification of it… Today, these distinctions are not also any more clear. These terms are of advantage become the description of a field of the scholarship, the specialists become very rare. Those, which use the techniques and conceptual most modern (molecular biology, phylogenetic analyzes…), hardly any more claim themselves of these names. They will be specialists in numerical taxonomy, biologists of the evolution. In other words, except exception, it is not any more the material (insect, fish, mushroom, bird…) who is used to define the biological discipline, but questions that this material makes it possible to pose and possibly solve.

• Comparative anatomy, study of the structure of the animals.

• the Physiology of the animals, field which included fields disciplinary like the Anatomy and the Embryology
• the Genetic and mechanisms of the developments studied within the molecular Molecular biology, Genetic and Biology of the development
• the ethology and the study of the animal behavior.
• the ecology which recovers the behavioral ecology amongst other things
• the Biologie of the evolution which studies the evolution, the Génétique of the populations, the Hérédité, the Reproduction, the Natural selection, the study of the genetic Diversité.
• the Systematic , the Cladistique, the Phylogenetic , the Phylogéographie, Biogeography and Taxonomy which classifies the species and the groups of species alive or disappeared and the relations which bind these species.
• Paléontologie, including all that concerns and which makes it possible to include/understand the zoology passed such as for example the Paléoclimatologie.

See too

• the animal Intelligence
• the Animal kingdom
• the List of zoologists
• History of the natural history
• the Zoology Project on Wikipédia
• the history of the zoology

Simple: Zoology Zh-yue: 動物學