How does studying animals without a backbone become so fascinating?
Well, first of all, there are hundreds of thousands of such animals, so that you never run out of new and fascinating organisms to study. Second, because of this diversity, there is an equal diversity of evolutionary histories, ecological requirements, etc. So the life of an invertebrate zoologist is actually a life of continuous exploration, and continuous surprise. Finally, and for me this is a truly important facet of invertebrate zoology, the animals are truly beautiful. And I do mean absolutely gorgeous little creatures, especially some of the microscopic ones! 6. What kinds of obstacles are there to becoming a biologist? The major one is money, but that is an obstacle for all college students. But perhaps the biggest obstacle is the lack of opportunity to go out into the field and study organisms in their natural habitats. There are plenty of places where such study can be done, and is done well, but for the vast majority of college students taking biology classes, such encounter
