animal behavior

noun

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

Other Words From

• animal behaviorist noun

Example Sentences

The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of animal behavior, providing a unique view of current scientific thought on animal emotions and consciousness.

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"As far as we know, this is the first assessment of how animal behavior researchers across a range of disciplines think about emotions and consciousness in non-human animals," says Marcela Benítez, assistant professor of anthropology at Emory University and corresponding author of the paper.

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As the field has grown, Benítez and colleagues wanted to quantify animal behavior researchers' perceptions of the taxonomic distribution of animal emotionality.

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They developed a survey of multiple-choice questions, free-form text fields and rating scales and sent it to leading graduate school programs in animal behavior research across disciplines.

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Animal behavior experiments in the wild provide valid social and ecological contexts but they are challenging to design and to control.

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