This intellectual travelogue takes readers on a tour through ethology, the scientific discipline focusing on animal behavior. |
In the mid-twentieth century, better methods and better models of natural selection drove the field of animal behavior back to ethology. |
In 1965 Goodall earned her Ph.D. in ethology from England's Cambridge University. |
Qualitative ethology is particularly useful when participants cannot be interviewed or when detailed reporting is desired. |
Patrick Bateson is professor of ethology at the University of Cambridge's zoology department, of which he has also been head. |
Other lemurs in the forest respond in similar ways to the fat-tail, according to Peter Kappeler, head of ethology and ecology at the center. |