Zoology for Kids: Understanding and Working with Animals, with 21 Activities
Bethanie and Josh Hestermann pose with Zuma a male Cal ifornia sea lion Courtesy of Mark Gonka
Time Line 350 BC Aristotle the Father of Zoology writes The History of Ani mals AD 77 circa Pliny the Elder completes Natural History AD 400 circa Polynesians settle on Easter Island 1551 Conrad Gesner publishes first volume of Historiae animal ium an early animal encyclopedia 1628 William Harvey describes the circulation of blood in ani mals 1665 Robert Hooke first uses the term cell 1681 The dodo a flightless bird species becomes extinct 1683 Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes and describes bacte ria
1750 circa Carolus Linnaeus develops system for naming animal species 1752 Schönbrunn Menagerie today Schönbrunn Zoo opens in Vienna Austria 1826 Zoological Society of London is founded 1828 London Zoo in London England opens to scientific fel lows 1831 1836 HMS Beagle's second voyage with Charles Darwin on board 1833 Louis Agassiz studies extinct life publishes research on fish fossils 1838 John James Audubon finishes publishing The Birds of America 1846 London Zoo opens to the paying public 1853 London Zoo Aquarium opens in London England 1856 Aquarium opens at Barnum's American Museum in
New York City it will burn down in 1865 1858 Rudolf Virchow proposes that every cell comes from a preexisting cell 1859 Charles Darwin describes natural selection in Origin of Species 1859 Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia Pennsylvania is incor porated it will open in 1874 1860 1863 Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens is open to the public 1860 circa Louis Pasteur begins studying bacteria and infectious diseases later develops first vaccines 1865 Gregor Mendel presents law of inheritance and lays groundwork for study of genetics 1872 1876 HMS Challenger expedition offers unprecedented explo ration of the ocean 1873 National Aquarium opens in Woods Hole Mass achusetts later moves to Washington DC 1900
