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.

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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.

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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

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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.