ethologist
Americannoun
plural
ethologistsExample Sentences
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Yet studies show that flat-faced dogs possess “kindchenschema” or “baby schema,” a term coined by ethologist Konrad Lorenz to describe infantile features that elicit caregiving reactions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
“For decades there has been a debate about whether animals are capable of such a level of abstraction,” said study leader Marianna Boros, a neuroscientist and ethologist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2024
Márta Gácsi, an ethologist at Eötvös Loránd University who helped pioneer the Strange Situation test for dogs and wolves in 2005, says the results don’t match what her team has seen.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 20, 2022
In 1989, when elephant ethologist Joyce Poole began carrying out surveys of three East African elephant populations to understand the impact that heavy poaching was having on them, she quickly noted several stark trends.
From Scientific American • Oct. 21, 2021
The first person to be known as an ethologist was an Austrian, Konrad Lorenz.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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