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the science of watching animals be themselves instead of asking them to be lab rats
means The scientific study of animal behaviour in natural conditions, focusing on instinct and how creatures actually act in the wild rather than in cages.
from From Greek 'ethos' (character, habit, the way one customarily behaves) plus '-logia' (study of) — so literally 'the study of character.' The same 'ethos' lies behind 'ethics,' which is fitting: both ask what a creature's nature truly is. The word drifted through several earlier senses (it once meant the portrayal of character in acting) before settling, in the 20th century, on its modern biological meaning.
- founders
- Lorenz, Tinbergen, von Frisch shared a 1973 Nobel
- imprinting
- goslings followed Lorenz as their mother
- four whys
- Tinbergen split behavior into four core questions
- bee dance
- von Frisch decoded the waggle's directions to flowers
- field first
- prizes wild context over caged convenience
jane goodall chimpanzees — primatologist studied wild chimps in gombe stream national park, tanzania since 1960
konrad lorenz geese imprinting — austrian zoologist demonstrated imprinting behavior in greylag goslings, 1935
niko tinbergen sticklebacks — dutch ethologist studied male three-spined stickleback territorial aggression and mating displays