http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9F2ij1jfI
Meet Steve and Terri Irwin, the
Crocodile Hunters...
What’s My Job?
Animal scientists and their jobs
Zoology is the study of animals.
Zoologists are people who study different kinds of animals. They are a kind of scientist.
Reptiles Birds Fish MammalsInsect
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zoology
•What is zoology a study of?
•Lets look at clues in the word:
zoo + -ology
Some zoologists only study reptiles.
These kinds of scientists are called herpetologists.
Steve Irwin was a herpetologist.
crocodilesnewts
frogssnakes
Herpetologists
study and work with reptiles and amphibians like...
Some zoologists only study birds.
These kinds of scientists are called ornithologists.
Salim Ali was an ornithologist.
Ornithologists
study and work with birds like...
Lovebirds
Peacocks
PenguinsOwlsDucks
Some zoologists only study insects
and arachnids.
These kinds of scientists are called entomologists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqzOi2Yyn0
Let’s find out what entomologists do.
Jean-Henri Fabre was an entomologist.
Zoologists who only study primates are primatologists.
Dr. Birute Gladikas is a primatologist.
Primatologists study and work with primates.
Jacques Cousteau was an important scientist who studied the life in the ocean. He was an
oceanographer.
Oceanographers study the life underwaterand also how the ocean works.