Zoology

Zoology

The scientific study of the animal kingdom, including extinct and possibly mythical beings.

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genetic feedback

Zoology; Zoological terms

Evolutionary response of a population to the adaptations of competitors, predators, or prey.

habitat compression

Zoology; Zoological terms

Restriction of habitat distribution in response to increase in number of competing species.Habitat Expansion

habitat expansion

Zoology; Zoological terms

Increase in average breadth of habitat distribution of species in depauperate biotas, especially on islands, compared with species in more diverse biotas.

habitat

Zoology; Zoological terms

Place where an animal or plant normally lives, often characterized by a dominant plant form or physical characteristic (that is, the stream habitat, the forest habitat).

hacking

Zoology; Zoological terms

A conservation and rehabilitation practice in which birds released into the wild are prvisioned with food while they gradually become independent

hatchling

Zoology; Zoological terms

Animal that has just emerged from an egg.

heat sensitive pit

Zoology; Zoological terms

Organ that helps certain snakes locate their warm-blooded prey. In boas and pythons, these border the mouth (labial pits); in pitvipers, they are between the nostri, the eye, and ...