(n.) The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herpetology is a rapidly growing interest in this country, reptiles being kept both for research purposes and as pets.
(2) He became known as the "Adder King", occasionally came to work with a snake in his sleeve and would go on to publish seven highly regarded books on herpetology (and prove, inter alia, that snakes are not susceptible to music).
(3) His many outstanding contributions to the fields of immunology, public health, toxinology and herpetology required not only a very high level of observational, deductive and practical ability but also an unswerving vision and sense of duty; this was allied to great administrative skill and exceptional energy.
Zoology
Definition:
(n.) That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
Example Sentences:
(1) This clearing and staining procedure is thus readily applicable to comparative studies in anatomy, embryology and systematic zoology.
(2) E. coli from wild boars in a zoological garden has less sensitivity than from domesticated animals.
(3) The data indicate that the comparatively poor reproductive performance of cheetahs maintained in zoological parks is not attributable to a captivity-induced response afflicting the male.
(4) Since its arrival at the Paris's zoological Park, the yeasts of the flora digestive tract of a young female of Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, was daily, then weekly studied.
(5) But despite becoming a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland – accorded a doctorate in France and winningly peer-reviewed in the US – British universities refused to consider his thesis, because he was not a graduate.
(6) Zoological preparation rooms (P) and post-mortem rooms (S) constitute an environment for the spread of infection in areas of human habitation.
(7) In zoological and judicial terms, the deer habituated to paddock keeping still belong to wild animals that are held captive.
(8) Although similar statements might be made about almost any field of science, it is in particular true of this field, which represents a kind of mongrel discipline derived from at least three major sources (psychology, embryology, and neuroscience) and several more minor ones (including developmental psychology and psychiatry, psychoanalysis, education, zoology, ethology, and sociology).
(9) We believe that a safe level for CO2 is below 350 parts per million," said Alex Rogers of the Zoological Society of London and International Programme on the State of the Ocean, who helped organise yesterday's meeting.
(10) Creatures across land, rivers and the seas are being decimated as humans kill them for food in unsustainable numbers, while polluting or destroying their habitats, the research by scientists at WWF and the Zoological Society of London found.
(11) Freemartinism in two animals from a captive herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) at the Denver Zoological Gardens (Denver, Colorado, USA) is described.
(12) At present the holotype materials are deposited at the department of Zoology, Girls College of Education, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
(13) October 17, 2012 3.18pm BST Prof Rosie Woodroffe at the Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology , who coordinated the letter published in the Observer last Sunday, has sent me the original letter for anyone who wants to see the accompanying footnotes and references.
(14) Three animals housed at the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. were studied; two had visible goiters, and a third bongo had microscopic evidence of goiter.
(15) In conventional (CV) mice, the frequencies were 6.2 in males and 5.3 in females (data from Zoological Science 2:249-255, 1985), with no significant differences compared with GF mice.
(16) The programs are equally suitable for botany or for zoology, or even for non-biological data.
(17) Iain Valentine, director of giant pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland , said: "As you are all probably aware, giant panda Tian Tian is now past her due date and the evidence suggests that this may be bad news.
(18) Groups included in the document such as the Food and Drink Federation, British Retail Consortium and Zoological Society of London all report progress and reaffirm their commitment to source 100% CSPO by the end of 2015.
(19) Jaeger was founded in 1884 by Lewis Tomalin, an accountant who was inspired by a health craze promulgated by Gustav Jaeger , a professor of zoology from Stuttgart.
(20) We describe the case of a lion tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), housed at the National Zoological Park in Washington DC, that had a polyarticular inflammatory arthropathy resembling RA.