INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL & ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

 The world of animals is a unique aspect of nature that beautifies the environment, and makes the world at large even more friendly. Yeah! Animals are diverse in nature, ranging from their geographical distribution, life forms and characteristics to their habitats. Introductory explanations that deals with animals and their various environment, talks about their interaction(s) with one another, relationships and even association in a particular environment.

         Animals are distributed largely across the globe with maybe a few areas without some existing species, as some animal species have gone into extinction. Just like humans, animals are able to tolerate their environment and even to adapt to that environment. Studies have shown that when species of animals are introduced into an environment, they will always and will try to tolerate the environmental difference(s) from where they were taken from and will finally adapt to that environment (new environment). The environment plays an important role between animal populations, communities and generally the interactions or relationships that exists between them. 

         The environmental factors present within that environment, could also determine the number of interacting species. These factors could be biotic( Living factors) or abiotic( Non-living factors). Animals species exhibit different or various forms of feeding habits/relationships. Some animal species are terrestrial (they live on land), some are amphibians (both on land and in water) while some are aquatic (they live in water). Limitations will not permit us to go further into the various habitats of some animal species other than the three aforementioned, as this is only an introduction to this wonderful course " Animal and Environmental Biology".!!

        I will put my pen down at this point by throwing more light on the title "Animal and Environmental Biology". Animals are group of living organisms that exhibit some forms of interaction, feeding relationships with one another. Animals are the most diverse group of multicellular, heterotrophic, eukaryotic organisms. They may either be microscopic or large in size and exists in varied habitats. The environment includes the sets of living and nonliving factors that influences the interactions between biological organisms, distribution or abundance, the interaction between populations or communities. The environment also influences the mode of energy transfer amongst organisms (Food chain and/or food web). And we all know how biology itself deals with living things. Biology is the study of living things and even their environment (distribution or abundance).  We could join all these definitions together in order to get a clear cut idea of what ----"Animal and Environmental Biology" is all about .............!!!!!!