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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. (Quote by - Spiro T. Agnew)

HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal now extinct which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. (Quote by - Karl von Frisch)

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. (Quote by - Gilbert White)

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