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Notable Zoologists Posters & Art Prints
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science posters > biology > zoology | ZOOLOGISTS < animals & pets
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Zoologists are the scientists who study animals and animal life.
The word zoology is from the Greek zoon = animal + logos = word.
Branches of zoology include:
 Acarology (mites & ticks)
Anthrozoology (human-animal interaction)
Arachnology (spiders)
Cetology (whales, dolphins, and porpoise)
Entomology (insects)
Helminthology (worms)
Herpetology (snakes)
Ichthyology (fish)
Mammalogy (mammals)
Myrmecology (ants)
Nematology (nematodes)
Parasitology (parasites)
Ornithology (birds)
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John James Audubon
b. 4-26-1785; Haiti
d. 1-27-1851; NY
Audubon was an ornithologist (a zoologist specializing in birds), hunter, and artist known today for his illustrations and descriptions of the birds of North America.
Audubon was an explorer and careful observer, noting “... the nature of the place — whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs — generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.”
Audubon's method for portraying birds in the motions of hunting and feeding involved using wires to prop the birds he first killed with fine shot.
• Audubon's Birds of America
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Rachel Carson
b. 5-27-1907; Springdale, Pennsylvania
d. 4-14-1964; Silver Spring, Maryland
“I can remember no time when I wasn't interested in the out-of-doors and the whole world of nature.”
Rachael Carson wanted to be a writer, but a college course in biology inspired her to think about a career in science.
Carson was able to combine her two loves of science and writing, raising the warning flag about the danders of pesticides that she observed were killing fish, birds, and insects. Her first two books, “Under the Sea-Wind” and “The Sea Around Us,” describe the oceans and the life they contain, but it was "Silent Spring," published in 1962, that made her famous.
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Dian Fossey
b. 1-16-1932; SF, CA
d. 12-26-1985; Rwanda
Zoologist Dian Fossey is remembered for her intensive and extensive study of gorillas in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Fossey defined gorillas as being “dignified, highly social, gentle giants, with individual personalities, and strong family relationships”, a photograph of her with “Peanut” was the first recorded peaceful contact between a human gorilla.
Fossey was murdered, probably by poachers who she regularly fought to keep gorilla parents from being killed as their infants were kidnapped for zoos.
She wrote of her experiences in “Gorillas in the Mist” which was later dramatized in a movie of the same name.
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Jane Goodall
b. 4-3-1934; London, England
Jane Goodall is a zoologist, primatologist (primates), ethologist (animal behavior), and anthropologist (humans) best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Stream National Park.
Goodall, and her mother, suffered from malaria upon their arrival at Gombe.
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Ernst Haeckel
b. 2-16-1834; Potsdam (Prussia) Germany
d. 8-8-1919
Haeckel, an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, named thousands of new species and coined the biological terms phylum, phylogeny, and ecology. He was also a supporter of Charles Darwin.
Ernst Haeckel quotes ~
• “Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of 'being and becoming!' That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.”
• “The cell never acts; it reacts.”
• “The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment.”
• “Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.”
• “Ontogeny is a short and quick repetition, or recapitulation, of Phylogeny, determined by the laws of Inheritance and Adaptation.”
• “It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called “educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.”
• “In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.”
• “There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared ‘European War’...will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.” ~ Haekel quoted in the Indianapolis Star, 9-20-1914 (it wasn't until 1920 the term First World War replaced “the Great War” in official usage.)
• Colonial Jellyfish illustration, art print
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Thor Heyerdahl
b. 10-6-1914; Larvik, Norway
d. 4-18-2002; Colla Micheri, Italy
Zoologist and geographer Thor Heyerdahl is best remembered for his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean by balsa wood and bamboo raft from Peru, South America to the Polynesian Tuamotu Islands.
Thor Heyerdahl quotes ~
• “For every minute, the future is becoming the past.”
• “I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.” (compare this to Carl Jung's experience out on the Plains of Athi, Africa)
• “I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.”
• Kon-Tiki
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William Henry Hudson
b. 8-4-1841; Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
d. 8-18-1922, London
William Henry Hudson is best remembered as the author of the 1904 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.
Hudson was also a naturalist and ornithologist who as instrumental in the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s-30s.
William Henry Hudson quotes ~
• “We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't care.”
• “You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”
• “I... thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!”
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Julian Huxley
b. 6-22-1887; London, England
d. 2-14-1975
Julian Huxley, the grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, was a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, and secretary of the London Zoological Society, as well as the first Director of UNESCO.
Julian Huxley's brothers were author Aldous Huxley and Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Huxley.
FYI ~ Julian Huxley wrote the introduction to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “The Phenomenon of Man”.
Julian Huxley quote ~
• “Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.”
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William Forsell Kirby
b. 1-14-1844; Leicester, England
d. 11-20-1912
Willam Forsell Kirby was an entomologist whose primary interest was butterflies and moths.
He also was gifted with languages translating the Finnish epic Kalevala to English and footnoting Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Arabian Nights.
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Carl Linnaeus
b. 5-13-1707; Råshult, Sweden
d. 1-10-1778; Uppsala
Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carolus Linnaeus (Latinized) and Carl von Linné (after ennoblement), was a botanist, physician and zoologist. He is recognized as the “Father of Modern Taxonomy”, and one of the fathers of modern ecology.
Linnaeus' contribution to science is the binary nomenclature, a formal system of naming species with a Latin name in two parts: first genus, then a specific description, ie. Rangifer tarandus for the reindeer.
• Animal Kingdom poster
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Roger Tory Peterson
b. 8-28-1908; Jamestown, NY
d. 7-28-1996; Connecticut
Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist and artist, is widely recognized as one of the major forces in bringing environmental concerns to the public in the 20th century.
Roger Tory Peterson quotes ~
• “Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.”
• “Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.”
• “I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
• “The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person’s life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.
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Edward O. Wilson
b. 6-10-1929; Birmingham, AL
Biologist, naturalist, conservationist, author and professor, E. O. Wilson, is a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. His specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants; he originally chose to study insects because he lost the sight in one eye as a child and observing at a distance was difficult, however a shortage of pins during WWII caused him to switch to ants that could be stored in a vial. Adaptation?
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I AM A VET, Poster
I like animals and they like me! Dogs, cats, rabbits, horses ... you name it. Taking care of animals is important, and I want to learn everything I can about the different species. If I work hard and pursue my dream, someday people will trust me to help keep their pets healthy and happy. I have the power to be somebody!
Related careers: Veterinary Technician / Animal Caretaker / Pet Groomer / Animal Trainer
• animal posters
• “Someday I'll be Somebody!” Vocational Education Posters
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