How to Use zoological in a Sentence

zoological

adjective
  • And, like the Mona Lisa, the artwork is the subject of a mystery—in this case, a zoological one.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Their demand for the beasts derived from their dream to turn the grassy park into a zoological wonder — a desire shared by the city’s park board.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Yesterday at 12:30 Eddie drove the truck through the gates at San Diego zoological gardens and all hands followed it to the mesa where the city’s big crane was waiting and the camels were wondering what the heck.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The team studied four immature orangutans that were shot in the wild and their bones housed in zoological museums.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • His wife, Iris, is a lifetime trustee of the zoological society.
    Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Andrews is SeaWorld’s chief zoological officer, and he’s been with the park since 1986.
    Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online, 30 July 2010
  • Money from the tax is used for maintenance and zoological exhibits, but pays only a fraction of the overall costs of those expenses.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2022
  • The first few pages of full-page art offer a gorgeous introduction to the concept of zoological collective nouns.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The dawn bear played a major role in this zoological flowering, though it’s not considered to be an ancestor to modern bears.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • According to a recent zoological study, the River Thames, declared dead decades ago, is today alive with fish, sharks, eels and other marine life.
    Reggie Nadelson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • How the animals use an ice treat is up to them, said Audrey Lagemann, zoological manager of elephants.
    Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Other works, like the zoological sketches of Joseph Wolf, show how societal norms have shaped the ways people imagine animals.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • In the zoological storage room in Cambridge, Collins’ colleague Matthew Teasdale, an archaeogeneticist, placed a small plastic box on the table and removed the lid.
    Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But to work out the expense to American taxpayers (or Mexican ones, since they are meant to be paying), The Economist totted up the structural and zoological requirements of the plan.
    The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Though Barack Obama reading zoological bedtime stories will be more than enough for some people.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The poll released this week started with 20 nominees chosen by family travel and zoological park experts and was pared down to 10 in a four-week popular vote.
    The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The zoological term primate refers to the order of mammals that includes humans, gorillas, apes, gibbons, and monkeys, among other species.
    Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2018
  • The use of city tax laws to fund the zoo should also be repealed, since the zoological society is more than capable of funding zoo infrastructure and operations.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • So much so that the San Antonio Zoo the zoo opened the first-ever chupacabra exhibit at a zoological facility in September.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Dan Self, zoological manager of reptiles at the Birmingham Zoo, said the snake in the photo with officer appears to be a boa constrictor though the photo was somewhat unclear.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In 1997, he was transferred to Zoo Atlanta, which boasts spacious primate habitats and the country’s largest population of zoological orangutans.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2017
  • For Angela Gibson, zoological manager at Oakland Zoo, the pups symbolize a step in the right direction.
    Eduardo Medina, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
  • Theaters, cinemas, museums, art venues, amusement parts, zoological gardens and more are open for those with a corona passport.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • Calvo asks us to apply zoological and psychological concepts and terms to plants.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Twenty‑five years of teaching biology primed me, or perhaps produced a strange bias in me, to experience holding the instrument as a zoological wonder.
    David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The whole thing was oddly zoological yet also irresistible.
    Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Long thought to have gone extinct alongside the dinosaurs, the coelacanth’s rediscovery in 1938 is considered one of that century’s greatest zoological findings.
    Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2020
  • As one of the country’s finest zoological attractions, the Milwaukee County Zoo will educate, entertain and inspire you!
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Any structure other than the male hemipenis was assumed by men in zoological fields to be vestigial or to only act as additional stimulation for male reptiles.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Lemurs are also protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act, as the zoo says they should be taken care of by qualified zoological organizations.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2023

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