“Animal” topics for research paper.

Animal concerns currently take a big part of the attention although they deserve to be researched and discussed even more. Animal world co-exists with ours and is a part of our environment. That is why it can be viewed from various angles, such as how animals treat their surroundings, how they communicate with each other and how they are treated by us. Here you can find the list with different topics for your research paper.

Topics About Animal Behavior

The notion of animal behavior: types, activities, meaning.
Policies of agricultural production affected by animal behavior.
Animal behavioral ecology.
The evolutionary grounds of animal behavior.
Ethology as a study of animal behavior.
The processes of animal sheltering.
Feeding habits in animal behavior.
The ways of animals expressing their emotions.
The theories of Darwin in animal behavior study.
The factors influencing the animal behavior.
The principles of primate behavior.
How does modern technology impact animal behavior?
The modifications of animal behavior made by technologies.
Does technology harm animals?
Animal awareness and thinking.
How do wild animals behave out and in the zoo?
Animal intelligence.
Animal memory mechanisms.
How does sexual selection work for animals?

Topics About Animal Cloning

Should people continue animal cloning?
Endangered animals’ future: is cloning a solution?
Cloning of wild animals: the challenges of the issue.
What is the profit of dogs cloning?
Is animal cloning justified ethically?
Food safety issues and animal cloning.
The impacts of animal cloning on food production.
Is cloning an effective way of nature preservation?
Should animal cloning for food production justified?
The policies of animal cloning.
Genetic engineering and animal cloning.
Animal cloning as an essential step in biotechnology.

Topics About Animal Cognition

Animal learning and cognition processes.
How do animals learn?
The basic principles of animal learning.
Animal emotions, brain and cognition.
Animal awareness and thinking: the main factors influencing.
How is animal awareness shaped?
Animals’ self-reflective consciousness.
The cognition processes in animal life.
Differences between human and animal cognition processes.
The common features of animal and human cognition.
Animal instincts typology.
Which instincts do animal and people share?
The keys to understanding animal cognition.
How to study a mind of an animal?
The processes of dolphin cognition.

Topics About Animal Rights

The basic animal rights that we should be aware of.
Why do animals deserve to have rights similar to human rights?
The most recent debates about animal rights.
How do people promote animal rights?
The people that oppose rights of animals.
The effective methods of animal rights advancing.
The concept of animal liberation.
Ethical questions in animal rights.
The moral principle grounding the rights of animals.
The philosophy of animal rights.
Why should not we eat animals?
Do animals’ rights violate some human rights?
Are zoos ethical institutions?
Does hunting violate the animals’ rights?

A Few Guidelines on How to Write

So, you can see how impressive the variety of topics for such type of research can be. They all cover different aspects of wildlife and its interconnection with the world of people. Due to certain complexity of all those issues which become the bright displays of such many-sided interconnection, it is necessary to present them in the right way, so that the potential reader could see your point of view clearly and understand what it is based on.

The thing is that most of the topics mentioned above as well as many other considerations on animals and humans living together can turn out to be quite controversial. Even if you apply to a number of very respectable and reliable scientific sources, you will find out that biologists, zoologists and many other specialists support absolutely opposite points of view concerning this or that issue. Their disputes may seem to be really endless because the evidence and arguments they adduce are all sound and valid if you look at all of them impartially.

The task is getting more challenging, isn’t it? Don’t panic! There is a good way to manage your research work effectively and get the best results from it. Let’s make it all out together right now! Below you will find some helpful guidelines to organize your writing process and be ready even with quite a voluminous research paper on time. You professor will appreciate it.

Guideline #1: Put Questions to the Chosen Topic

As you have decided what you want to research and write about, it is important to understand what exactly can become the subject and the main focus of your writing. You see, that sentence or, to be more precise, the clever combination of words which we can call a topic for your paper, is very abstract in its essence. On the one hand, it implies the general idea of your research and defines the direction for your work. However, on the other hand, the topic itself doesn’t provide you with any hints about why the issue you have chosen can be interesting to research, what you should actually write about it or how you should structure the text.

So, first of all you need to sit down and make a list of questions which could help you see clearly what aspects your topic covers and what you need to find out about them. As an example, let’s take the topic “Animal learning and cognition processes”. You may ask yourself:

what animals demonstrate the best ability to learn;
who studied behavior and learning process of these animals; what experiments were conducted; what results were received;
what factors may influence on such ability and why;
what artificial impact can provide improvement of this ability;
what similarities can be observed between the animal and human learning abilities and cognition.

Guideline #2: Choose Your Materials Carefully

You know well that you can hardly write a good academic paper without some really smart literature. Don’t hesitate to ask your instructor’s or supervisor’s advice and spend at least one whole day on searching for some useful sources of materials in the Internet. In order to orient yourself better in the vast variety of books and articles that can greatly help you with your writing, at first you can find one or two articles and then look for those sources which the authors of these articles refer to.

In case you doubt whether the information you have come across is true or not, consult your instructor or check the author’s name, the name of the article you have read or some selected statements from the text in the Net once again.

Guideline #3: Plan the Structure Thoroughly and Stick to It

After you have defined what your topic may imply and collected a good deal of reliable literature, you can make a plan for your paper. Divide it into several parts devoted to particular issues or aspects of the research. Do not start writing with the introductory part. It will be much easier to complete it after you come up with the conclusions.

Good luck!