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

Last week, we reported on how China is using insights about animal behavior to train AI-controlled drones.

From The Wall Street Journal

This week, Josh Chin reports on how China is using insights about animal behavior to train AI-controlled drones.

From The Wall Street Journal

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