Zoo Vocabulary by

zoo A park or institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public.

habitat The place where a person or thing is most likely to be found.

endangered species A species present in such small numbers that it is at risk of extinction.

zookeeper One who takes care of animals in a zoo.

reptiles Any of various cold- blooded, usually egg- laying vertebrates of the class Reptilia, such as a snake, lizard, crocodile, turtle, or dinosaur, having an external covering of scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs.

mammals Any of various warm- blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.

herbivore An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.

carnivore A flesh-eating animal.

omnivore An omnivorous person or animal. One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

species A fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus and consisting of related organisms capable of interbreeding.