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animal behavior

noun

  1. 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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  • animal behaviorist noun
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Example Sentences

You’re looking at behavior today and in the past, which gives insights into animal behavior.

Previously dogs weren’t considered good models for studies into animal behavior because they were thought to be an “artificial species” shaped by humans, Kubinyi says.

Marc Bekoff, a researcher at the University of Colorado and a lifelong student of animal behavior, argues that play broadens an animal’s behavioral repertoire, giving them the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.

She’s a biologist who studies animal behavior at Johns Hopkins University.

It’s hard to tell whether these were actually changes in animal behavior versus changes in our perspective.

In short, the animal behavior expert told the zoo to stop pampering Gus and start treating him like a bear.

And I'd be remiss not to direct you a display of animal behavior in action.

The 2,500 hours of footage shot by the crew includes a lot of material that illustrates animal behavior for the first time.

Its roots lie deep in organic life, but there is no direct development or exclusive development from animal behavior to human.

In psychology interest developed in the study of the child and in the comparative study of human and animal behavior.

What, according to Hobhouse, are the differentia of human morality from animal behavior?

We account for animal behavior on rational grounds of animal psychology, there is little to interpret.

Least of all do zoos produce any new knowledge about animal behavior.

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