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Ethology

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…

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Etymology

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Tinbergen's four questions for ethologists

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Ethology

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Avg. degree1.96
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related to Growth of the field · 19
Ethology → After, Cambridge, Due, Europe, Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Lorenz, Medicine, Niko Tinbergen, Nobel Prize, Oxford, Patrick Bateson, Physiology, Robert Hinde, Tinbergen, UK, University, William Thorpe, World War II
related to Social ethology · 19
Ethology → Albert Newen, Crook, Darwinism, English, Furthermore, Hamilton, In, Institute, It, John, Philosophy II, Robert Trivers, Ruhr University Bochum, Sociobiology, The, The New Synthesis, Tobias Starzak, Wilson, Wilson's
related to Further reading · 8
Ethology → Burkhardt, Conspectus, Emergence, History, Jr, On, Richard, Scientific Discipline
related to Tinbergen's four questions for ethologists · 8
Ethology → Causation, Development, Evolutionary, Function, How, Tinbergen, What, Why
related to Etymology · 4
Ethology → American, Greek, The, William Morton Wheeler
related to External links · 3
Ethology → Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
is a · 1
Ethology → branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals
instance of · 1
Ethology → with its own journals
see also · 1
Ethology → Animal

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behaviour animals scientific tinbergen work ethologists ecology animal early modern history species hunger charles discipline lorenz evolutionary social four field

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Ethologyis abranch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals0.90text
Animal Behaviourinstance ofwith its own journals0.80text
Applied Animal Behaviour Scienceinstance ofwith its own journals0.80text
Animal Cognitioninstance ofwith its own journals0.80text
Behaviourinstance ofwith its own journals0.80text
Behavioral Ecologyinstance ofwith its own journals0.80text
Ethologyinstance ofwith its own journals0.80text
Ethologyrelated to EtymologyThe0.60section
Ethologyrelated to EtymologyGreek0.60section
Ethologyrelated to EtymologyAmerican0.60section
Ethologyrelated to EtymologyWilliam Morton Wheeler0.60section
Ethologyrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section

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