Ethology- the study of animal behavior
Entomology - the scientific study of insects
Ichthyology - the study of fishes ...
ethology
[Gk. ethos, habit, custom + logos, discourse]
The comparative study of patterns of animal behavior, with emphasis on their adaptive significance and evolutionary origin.
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Ethology: Study of animal behaviour under normal conditions.
Eugenics: The idea of improving the quality of human species by selective breeding.
Ethology studies animal behavior (particularly of social animals such as primates and canids), and is sometimes considered as a branch of zoology.
ethology The study of whole patterns of animal behavior in natural environments, stressing the analysis of adaptation and the evolution of the patterns.
Richard Dawkins (ethology)
George A. Feldhamer (mammalogy)
William Flower (mammals)
Edmund Brisco Ford (ecological genetics)
Dian Fossey (primatology)
BirutÄ- Galdikas (primatology)
Jane Goodall (primatology) ...
These ideas were influential as ethology became more popular in the 1960s, but they are now regarded as outdated because of their use of an energy flow metaphor; ...
 See also: Evolution, Human, Animal, Biology, Species
  
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