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The Zoology Coloring Book

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Designed for students taking biology-based courses in both High School and early University years, this colouring book is equipped with a lot of stuff, which will satisfy its audience.
The coverage of this atlas spanned across a wide variety of animals: from the minute simple ones to the largest and the most complex chordates. Its beautifully illustrated diagrams would appeal to students of biology, zoology, agriculture, veterinary medicine, and a long list of other ancillaries.
Each figure that featured in this book received adequate structural identification, inaddition to a well-described anatomical components. The elaborations given to their respective taxonomies are more than satisfactory.
In fact, there is hardly anything to complain about here: The price of this book is reasonable. Still, I wish that (in subsequent edition), the syllabus of this book should be enlarged, so as to accommodate more specimens.

I have found this book to be a valuable resource to not only myself, but my students as well. It works wonders for those of us visual learners that need that little bit extra. The diagrams take you through most of the common animals studied in Zoology classes. Systems of each animal are the highlight of each coloring plate.

This book sounds ridiculous, and I was mocked by my roommates for using it in college, but it taught me more than my Zoology professor and text book combined. A great resource for passing the tests as well as retaining the knowledge.

This is a unique approach to learning Zoology. The coloring aspect allows people to really connect what they are reading to the actual structures and ideas in taught in classes. Don't be fooled though, the idea isn't to just run through coloring everything to your heart's content. Follow the directions given and read the reading pages before/while you color and you'll learn a lot while having a little fun as well. The other coloring books available are especially recommended if you are a biologist and want to learn a little more about fields of biology that you are maybe not focusing on in college, Marine Biology or the human brain for example.

"The Zoology Coloring Book," is a great way on learning the different aspects of Zoology. You get to color all the parts of the animals as well as other things, in order to learn. This book is wonderful for anyone planning on becomming a zoologist, or any other profession in the animal field

I picked up this book for fun, and found it to be very useful in my Comparative Vertebrate Morphology Class in college. Great to learn all about different animals! Great as a gift for kids 12 & up.

I used the pages for the frog as a prep for dissection with seventh graders with limited English proficiency. Coloring was done together as a class with specified colors: ie. the entire digestive system was colored with colored pencils one organ at a time, sequentially, in pink. When finished, the entire organ system was easy to define. Other organ systems were, of course, colored using different colors. Students could not dissect until the coloring was completed satisfactorily. The result was that students knew what they were looking for and approximately where it would be found before they started. Even the foggiest student was successful in the lab. It took a lot of time, but it was definitely worth it. Specimens for dissection are extremely expensive but I felt that using this method, the students really learned something rather than just playing around with the lab.

Years ago my daughter and I took a college zoology class together. We asked for permission to use this coloring book instead of participating in class dissection. Permission was given and my daughter and I made the highest grades in the class.

I teach high school zoology. I use this book ALL THE TIME for this course. It really helps the kids learn the parts of the animals and gets them to focus for a little bit on the structures and the organism.

I scanned the book into the computer so I have a PDF version of it and now I can take snippets from the book and put them on the kids' tests, so they see the same diagram throughout the lesson and don't have a completely different diagram that they have to "relearn" on the test.

Highly recommend this book. It would also probably be appropriate to help someone taking an undergraduate course in invertebrate or vertebrate zoology as well.

I originally bought this for fun and didn't expect great things from the cover, but this is definitely not a book that should be judged by the outer illustrations.

I am a college undergraduate level Zoology student, and this book is an absolute great overview of every single one of my animal courses, as well as a very good first introduction to dissection-- covering both the standard frog and fetal pig. But besides vertebrates (which get tons of coverage over classes) this book also includes a good portion of non-vertebrates (which I think are equally if not more important since they make up most of the named animal kingdom) that get slighted or passed over in favor of the more popular subjects. This book includes both the early chordates- the amphioxus and tunicates, as well as a very basic introduction of Mitosis and Meiosis, and the mechanisms behind more complicated but important adaptations of animals like the namesake cnidocytes in Cnidarians.

The accompanying text is very well written and easily understandable. I would without hesitation recommend this book to any high schooler or college student who think they might be interested in Veterinary, Zoo Science or any other biology related field because it is such a complete introduction to the phylums within the Animal Kingdom.

One drawback though that only the current Biology majors will notice-- many more species have been found and named since the publication of this book. The rest of the written information however still stands good though so I hardly even think it deserves a half a star reduction. Also- the effect of torsion in gastropods is explained as a key feature of the group but not outright named, and due to the basic nature of the book, a few families are omitted like odd groups with very few members or are elsewise ancient and exceptional like the groups of Tuatara and Ratites. Scientific names are given in the text but not on the picture pages, so if it is your pleasure the coloring can still be done on its own.

This book does not cover evolution or the interrelatedness of animals, but does a good job of describing each animal in a fair amount of detail on their own. It does provide a comparative coloring page on each of the organ systems for understanding of the difference between different systems as well as showing who has what. An over all excellent anatomy guide. I'd give it ten stars if I could, and wish I had found it sooner.