Zoology

Zoologist. The Zoology career focuses on animal behavior, diets, habitats, and the overall well-being of wildlife animals. To become a Zoologist, you must have a strong passion and understanding of all animals, from birds to lions and everything in between. Zoologists can have several different jobs, salaries, work environments, and education levels. It can also be fairly difficult to find a job in the Zoology field, but it is an overall rewarding job. While researching a career, I found more information about Zoology and it has helped me find the profession I wish to work in. A Zoologist, or Wildlife Biologist, is a scientist who studies animals and knows everything from the animal 's cells to what they eat. When going into Zoology, there are many different kinds of jobs available. The lowest paying job you could get as a Zoologist would be a Zookeeper. A Zookeeper prepares animal meals, cares for the animal, and monitors their behavior. Being a Zookeeper would mean you could work at the zoo, but it would not pay as much as other jobs. Another job that comes with being a Zoologist is a Wildlife Educator. Wildlife Educators research animals for educational visits and can help raise animals. Researching animals while being a Wildlife Educator is different than…

Education/Training Requirements An entry level as a zoologist requires an undergraduate degree in zoology or closely related fields like wildlife biology.This academic program involve coursework in natural sciences, animal anatomy, ecology, invertebrate zoology, histology, and animals structure and function. Upper level courses allow for specializations in genetics,parasitology, and cytology. If your career goal is to to be a manager or researcher, you will need to pursue an advanced degree…

Description of Intern Activities The internship is being completed at the Brevard Zoo. Prior to the internship, the student was already an employee of the facility. The internship combines both the student’s previous experience as an employee and new experiences as an intern. The main focus is on animal training, behavior, and learning. The activities are centered on both the human and animal interactions in the education department. The human aspects of the internship is related to the hosting…

I work with all kinds of people every single day. I have participated in so many different clubs and activities that I have met and worked with every kind of person that there is. During the fall I work in a customer service job. This has taught me how to work and interact with many different people. Most importantly it has taught me how to handle angry people while still being as polite and helpful as possible. Through Junior Zookeepers I have lead and followed many different kinds of…

Learning Journal Unit 6 – Introduction to Biology University of the People Author: Murray Ball - Thursday, December, 22nd, 2016 Featured Characteristics of the Common Snapping Turtles Phylum In your assigned readings, you were introduced to the major animal phyla. Choose an animal which represents a particular phylum. Briefly describe its features characteristic of its phylum including morphology, embryology, and physiology. Identify adaptations of your animal compared with other animals. If…

and lack the sagacity required for the tough job. Supporters of captive breeding, along with zoos, proclaim that the released animals are actually acclimating well and that zoos have saved certain animals from extinction (“Captive Breeding” 69). Even though captive breeding is actually a failing system, in some cases it has worked. Native in Africa, Bongos are a threatened forest antelope that have been reintroduced back into its natural habitat with help of the AZA Bongo Species Survival Plan.…

To Be Named: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The title, The Glass Menagerie, is the first “name” that is encountered, and a menagerie is “A collection of wild animals in cages or enclosures, esp. one kept for exhibition, as in a zoo, etc. Also: a place or building in which such a collection is kept.”(OED). By this definition, the characters are like the wild animals as they are trapped together because of financial reasons, family bonds, and because they are stuck in Tom’s memory. By…

Wildlife Biologist, Bay Area Puma Project. 1) Job description Contribute to the Bay Area Puma Project research by collecting and analyzing puma ecology data, in order to develop models of occupancy, habitat suitability, and permeability. 2) General duties General duties include: a) camera traps sampling design and data analysis b) applying GIS techniques and noninvasive field methods for puma ecology research c) contribute to the data entry, data analysis, and report writing d) assisting field…

The reading and the lecture are both about the findings of living tissues, in the fossilized leg of Tyrannosaurus(Dinosaur). The reading presents some observation based findings, and the lecturer shows the opposite side of the picture, based on the facts. First of all, the author of the reading mentions the point of the presence of the small, inter connected system of channels which is soft, located in the inner cavities of the bone, and it reflects that this organism had blood vessels in the…

To: Bipul Chakraborty From: Sajal Nazir, Consultant Re: Tata Steel Zoological Park Problem Statement: This report will assist Bipul Chakraborty, the new Director of the Tata Steel Zoological Park, in determining how the triple bottom-line framework can be incorporated into the business model; where the zoo can become a profitable and self-sufficient business venture, while also meeting its conservational, environmental and social objectives. Key Issues: The zoo is facing a profitability…