Ethology

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Contents 1 Used for 2 See for 3 Broader Terms 4 Narrower Terms 5 Related Terms 6 Scope Note 7 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

Used for

animal behavior, animal migration, fixed action pattern, species typical behavior

See for

imprinting

Broader Terms

behavioral /social science

Narrower Terms

animal communication behavior, animal developmental psychology, family, instinct, predation, territoriality

Related Terms

animal ecology, animal population study, behavior, bioperiodicity, environmental adaptation, escape reaction, open field behavior, orientation, social dominance

Scope Note

discipline pertaining to the study of animal behavior.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• What is cognitive ethology? The simplest characterization of cognitive ethology is that it is the marriage of cognitive science [1] and ethology.
• The interdisciplinary science of cognitive ethology is concerned with claims about the evolution of cognitive processes.
• ETHOLOGY - From Wikipedia Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour (particularly of social animals such as primates and canids), and is a branch of zoology.
• General ethology is important as well.
• Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behaviour through the centuries, the modern science of ethology is usually considered to have arisen as a discrete discipline with the work in the 1920s of biologists Nikolaas Tinbergen of The Netherlands and Konrad Lorenz of Austria.

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