The Department of Zoology was initially established in 1932 as the Biological-Pedagogical Institute, and was one of the first institutions that formed Tel-Aviv University in its early days. Today, the Department of Zoology is still one of the largest departments in the Faculty of Life Sciences. Research in the department covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including Physiology, Endocrinology, Deve
lopmental Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Behavior and Marine Biology. The department also encompasses the I. Meier Segals Garden for Zoological Research , the only one of its type in the country, offering unique research and teaching facilities, as well as the zoological collections of the National Museum of Natural History at Tel-Aviv University. The Department of Zoology offers a wide variety of courses for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as educational activities designed for schoolchildren and the general public,organized through the Nature Campus program and the Animals & Society Project.
