ethology

Also known as biology of behaviour, behavioral biology, behavioural biology, animal behavior, animal behaviour

thumb|Honey bee|Honeybee workers perform the [[waggle dance to indicate the range and direction of food.]] thumb|Great crested grebes perform a complex synchronised [[courtship display.]] thumb|Male impalas fighting during the rut

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Ethology is the scientific study of how animals behave in their natural environments, examining everything from the waggle dance that honeybees use to communicate food locations to the elaborate courtship displays of grebes and the fighting behaviors of impalas. It matters because understanding animal behavior helps us learn how different species interact with each other and their surroundings, revealing the remarkable complexity of the natural world.

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Research

6,161 papers

How can ethology inform the neuroscience of fear, aggression and dominance?ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Battivelli D, Fan Z, Hu H et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00858-2
Promises and challenges of human computational ethology.ReviewNeuron · 2021Mobbs D, Wise T, Suthana N et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.05.021
Experimental ethology of learning in desert ants: Becoming expert navigators.ReviewBehavioural processes · 2019Freas CA, Fleischmann PN, Cheng KDOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2018.12.001
Toward a science of computational ethology.ReviewNeuron · 2014Anderson DJ, Perona PDOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.09.005
Veterinary ethology and animal welfare.ReviewRevue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) · 1994Odendaal JSDOI: 10.20506/rst.13.1.762
Ethology and neurobiology of grooming behavior.ReviewPhysiological reviews · 1992Spruijt BM, van Hooff JA, Gispen WHDOI: 10.1152/physrev.1992.72.3.825
Attachment, ethology and adult psychotherapy.ReviewAttachment & human development · 2004Sable PDOI: 10.1080/14616730410001663498
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?ReviewAnimal cognition · 2023Abdai J, Miklósi ÁDOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01719-0

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Contents

Etymology
History
The beginnings of ethology
Growth of the field
Social ethology
Tinbergen's four questions for ethologists
See also
References
Further reading
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Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th century, including Charles O. Whitman, Oskar Heinroth, and Wallace Craig. The modern discipline of ethology is generally considered to have begun during the 1930s with the work of the Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and the Austrian biologists Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, the three winners of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ethology combines laboratory and field science, with a strong relation to neuroanatomy, ecology, and evolutionary biology.