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Definition of Ethology
1. Noun. The branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats.
Definition of Ethology
1. n. A treatise on morality; ethics.
Definition of Ethology
1. Noun. (zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) The study of the human ethos. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethology
1. the study of animal behavior [n -GIES]
Medical Definition of Ethology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethology
Literary usage of Ethology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1906)
"CHAPTER V. OK ethology, OR THE SCIENCE OF THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER. § 1.
THE laws of mind, as characterised in the preceding chapter, ..."
2. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1867)
"The one ascertains" the simple laws of Mind in general, the other traces their
1^ operation in complex combinations of circumstances. ethology stands ! ..."
3. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"ethology, or the science of the formation of character, traces the operation of
these simple laws in complex combi- ' nations of circumstances and is ..."
4. The Western Quarterly Review (1849)
"V.—ethology. Is Science antagonistic 10 the true development of man ? Pardon us
for putting the interrogatory. We would not question, had not the negative ..."
5. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by William Stebbing (1875)
"CHAPTER V. ethology, OK THE SCIENCE OF THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER. TILL the
Empirical laws of Mind, ie the truths of common experience, are explained by ..."
6. A Manual of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1905)
"... relation of the organism to its environment gives us a final and most important
branch of Natural History which has been called ethology or Bionomics. ..."
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