animal behavior

American  

noun

1. behavior.

2. a branch of biology that deals with the behavior of animals, encompassing such fields as ethology, comparative psychology, behavioral ecology, and sociobiology.

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Other Word Forms

• animal behaviorist noun

Example Sentences

I did not go into conservation or animal behavior, despite putting Jane Goodall toward the top of my most-admired list.

From Slate

In the course of establishing one of the world’s longest-running studies of wild animal behavior at what is now Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, she gave her chimp subjects names instead of numbers, a practice that raised eyebrows in the male-dominated field of primate studies in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers will cross-check volunteers’ notes against fire and smoke distribution data to look for patterns in animal behavior.

From Los Angeles Times

In one 2017 study, Ofer Tchernichovski, who studies animal behavior at Hunter College, and his team set up an experiment in which birds had to get an unpleasant air puff in order to reach a peep hole where they could see a singing bird.

From Salon

But as Piero Amodio, an animal behavior and cognition researcher in Napoli featured in “Octopus!” says in the series, the idea of intelligence is a human one.

From Salon