2. Zoology is the study of animals with and without a backbone, from worms, insects, and
mollusks to fish, birds, and of course, mammals. In general all zoology specialization involves
work with animals either in the wild or in a lab (zoology). Zoology has thousands of areas to
specialize in. You can have one focus or more than one. Many people pick there favorite
animals to focus on but the best bet at a good job is if you have a wide variety of knowledge on
many animals (Willie Campbell).
Also if you go to college for four years and then go to a zoo keeping school for another
year or two it will be easy to get a job at the zoo (Willie Campbell). If you are a zoologist in the
field you will have to live in living Conditions you are not used to like the heat of the desert or
the cold of the arctic. If you like a steady temperature you should stay in a lab. There are many
jobs that involve zoology like Zookeeper, Wildlife Educator, Researcher, and Wildlife
Rehabilitator and park ranger. The job I want is to be a zookeeper.
A zookeeper’s role includes preparing meals, caring for animals, cleaning enclosures,
monitoring and recording behavior ensuring the animals are healthy and training animals or a
Wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabilitators care for ill, injured and orphaned wild animals and
release the animals back into their habitat. With ether of these I would like to work with big
cats, wolves and birds of prey I would love to help with the endangered wolves, big cats and
bird. They are in my opinion the best animals but i will learn all I can on all animals.
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3. The big cats are the most powerful majestic animals I have ever had the privilege to see.
I fell in love with them the first time I laid my eyes on them and it saddens me to no end to here
how they are endangered. As a zoologist I will fight for them. Poaching is one of the main
reasons for big cats like the tiger and the lion to be endangered. It makes me sick that they are
dying just to be put on a guy’s wall.
There are only 3200 tigers and 30000 to 100000 lions I know it seems like a lot but not
to there past numbers. When I become a zoologist I will start as many breeding programs as I
can there aren’t enough. I want my kids and there kids to see them. Not read about how they
were in books. Tigers are the biggest cats in the world but the lions come a close second. The
lifespan of a tiger and a lion is (tigers) 16-20years (lions) 20-25 years.
They should not be breed together even if the offspring are bigger and stronger than
both parents. They are often sterile and they have many health problems due to genetic
abnormalities. They are called ligers the result of a male lion and female tiger. They often have
cancers and arthritis. They also have gigantism were they grow for most of there lives. A lot of
them have to be put down as a result.
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4. The wolves are a proud and noble animal. They live in a group called a pack. It consists
of the two alpha wolves one male one female in the lead. There is a beta if something happens
to the alphas the betas take over. Then the juveniles they scout and take care of the pups. Then
there is the omega the wolves’ scapegoat. It bears the brunt of the packs harassment and last
to eat.
Some times it is picked on so much it becomes a lone wolf. The pack is the ideal form of
team work they hunt together protects the pups together. Yet we hunt them to very low
numbers for their fur. But thanks to zoologist and other conservation societies they are all most
off of the endangered species list. They are a great animal and I thank that humans can learn a
lot from them.
They breed with dogs to make popular pet wolf dogs. They keep some of there wolf
traits so they are hard to legally keep as pets you have to have a permit. In some states they
limit the amount of wolf blood in the wolf dog. And it is very easy to get sued if it bites
someone. But they are very loyal animals. And they are obedient like dogs if trained right.
As a zoologist I would like to study wolves to see if it is possible to help human society. So we
can work together for the good of humans as a group instead off the one.
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5. The birds of prey like Falcons, hawks and Eagles are used as icons all over the world. But
there species are declining because of deforestation and poaching. There are birds of prey on
every continent. They live in forest and grasslands that are being destroyed for human wants.
They have no way of protecting them self’s from us so we need to do it for them.
Their diet consist of meat they will rarely eat fruit or other plant like foods. Some love
live food were as others love to eat food that was already dead. It all depends on the bird
hawks hunt and vultures scavenge for food. There sizes differ greatly the Black-thighed Falconet
is one of the smallest birds of prey, typically measuring between 14–16 centimeters 5.5–6.3 in
long. And theSteller’s Sea Eagle is a large bird of prey it lives in coastal northeastern Asia and
mainly preys on fish. On average, it is the heaviest eagle in the world, at about 5 to 9 kilograms.
As a zoologist I also wish to be a falconer. It is the trainer of birds of prey in the sport of
falconry. It is 1212 years old and was mainly used by nobles for fun. Now you have to have
permits to practice falconry.
Zoologist rescues these birds all the time for relocation or breeding programs. There
also help if they are in need of rehabilitation. The birds that are helped are in perfect health
when they are released. But if they are so bad off that they cannot live by themselves the
zoologists will keep them in captivity.
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6. I have not always wanted to be a zoologist I wanted to be a Marine biologist. But I had a thought
I love all animals not just the marine kind. So I found zoology and I felt this is where I belong that I had to
do this. No matter what happens I will be a zoologist. The job dos not pay a lot but I have learned that I
would rather work for less and love my job than get pad a lot of money and hate my job.
Zoology is important never say that it is a useless subject. Without zoology I Thank the world
would be a different place. It would be worse zoology helps animals if you help the animals you
help their habitat and if you help the habitat you help the world. So zoology helps fight the slow
death of earth indirectly.
Zoology it is fun and entertaining. I never thought I could find the fulfillment that I fill
when I learn about zoology. It is a name I strive for it is the name I will get. This is my dream and
this is my junior paper.
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