"I The portrayal of character by mimic gestures 2 The science of ethics; also a treatise on manners or morals 3 The science of character formation " (Webster's, 1961)
the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats
The comparative study of the behaviour of creatures, which include humans, living in their natural environment Used to be known as 'natural history' before humans were included in the study
Study of animal behaviour. It is a combination of laboratory and field science, with strong ties to other disciplines (e.g., neuroanatomy, ecology, evolution). Though many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behaviour through the centuries, the modern science of ethology is considered to have arisen as a discrete discipline with the work in the 1920s of Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. Interested in the behavioral process rather than in a particular animal group, ethologists often study one type of behaviour (e.g., aggression) in various unrelated animals