"What ""logy"" is the study of animals?"
The Colours of Animals in evolution. She writes that Poulton's position was highly influential, stating that later "Darwinian experts on coloration" followed his views, citing Frank Evers Beddard's 1892 "Animal Coloration" as evidence. In his Introduction to Hugh Bamford Cott's 1940 book "Adaptive Coloration in Animals", Julian Huxley praised Cott's work as "a worthy successor to Sir Edward Poulton's "The Colours of Animals"... The one was a pioneer study, the other is in many respects the last word on the subject"". The Colours of Animals The Colours of Animals is a zoology book written in 1890 by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943). It was
-logy also often bear the name of this subject (e.g. the scientific journal "Ecology"). When appended to other English words, the suffix can also be used humorously to create nonce words (e.g. "beerology" as "the study of beer"). As with other classical compounds, adding the suffix to an initial word-stem derived from Greek or Latin may be used to lend grandeur or the impression of scientific rigor to humble pursuits, as in "cosmetology" ("the study of beauty treatment") or "cynology" ("the study of dog training"). -logy -logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient