[Gk. ethos, habit, custom + logos, discourse] The comparative study of patterns of animal behavior, with emphasis on their adaptive significance and evolutionary origin.

Study of animal behavior.

the scientific study of animal behaviour

The science of the way that animals behave in relation to their environment

late 17c., "mimicry, art of depicting characters by mimic gestures," from Latin ethologia, from Greek ethologia, from ethos "character" (see ethos). Taken by Mill as "science [..]

study of animal behavior in natural environments.

The study of whole patterns of animal behavior in natural environments, stressing the analysis of adaptation and the evolution of the patterns. ethylene

Comparative study of the behaviour of animals in natural habitats and captivity.

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior in natural settings (as opposed to laboratory settings which are created by researchers). An example of an ethological study would be observing bird [..]

The study of animal behavior under natural conditions.

(n) the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats

The science and study of animal behavior.

n. etología

The discipline pertaining to the study of Animal Behavior.

The discipline pertaining to the study of animal behavior.

An area of biology concerned with the analysis of the behavior patterns that evolve in natural habitats, either in species or in individual organisms, with particular emphasis on those patterns that d [..]

The comparative study of the behaviour of creatures, which include humans, living in their natural environment. Used to be known as 'natural history' before humans were included in the study [..]

The study of animal behaviour in the understanding that it sheds light on the innateness of certain human behaviours.

(zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour. (obsolete) The study of the human ethos.

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