ethologist
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- noun
- /ˌiːθəˈlɒdʒɪst/
- Specialized
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- During her research, the ethologist documented the complex social interactions among dolphins.
- ethologists study animal behavior
Tim Bergen, another famous ethologist, define the four questions.
- Tim Bergen, another famous ethologist, define the four questions.
Examples
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As an ethologist, Dissanayake illustrates throughout her work how "making special" creates bonds between parents and children, how communities create their identity and sustain their members, how tradition is maintained, and how ancestral spirits are honored.
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An ethologist observed the migration patterns of birds in their natural habitats.
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German ethologist Paul Leyhausen, one of the world's great authorities on cats big and small, attempted to continuously follow and record the behavior of three farm cats in the 1950s.
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For example, the great ethologist Konrad Lorenz got goslings to follow him around as if he were their mother, because goslings are born with a mental program telling them to follow the large moving object that they see within a short critical period after they hatch.
Academic text (1991) -
The term meme, a portmanteau of mimesis and gene, was coined in 1976 by British ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
Blog text (25) -
It is that quality, said ethologist Jane Goodall—not toolmaking or feeling for another person—that separates us from other primates.
Academic text (2000) -
To see whether symmetry played a role in the perception of human beauty, ethologist Karl Grammer of Vienna University and I conducted a study in which men and women were presented with digitalized images of opposite-sex faces of varying degrees of symmetry.
Academic text (1993) -
Earthly ethologists have drawn a sort of curve, plotting mass against longevity for mammalian species, and it demonstrates that the smaller the creature, in general, the shorter its life expectancy.
Fiction book (1997) -
Ethologists, scientists who study and compare the biological bases of behavior in the animal kingdom, contend that hoarding is part of our cognitive hardwiring, a fixed action pattern with a distinct zoological heritage.
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The ethologist published her findings after spending years studying the behaviors of wolves in the wild.
Synonyms
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A person who studies animals and how they live
A person who studies animals' bodies, behaviour, and care
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ethologist comes from the Greek root ethos, meaning 'habit' or 'character', and the part -logy, meaning 'study'. So an ethologist is a scientist who studies animals' habits and behavior in nature.