Animal Behaviour

ETHOLOGY (THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE)

Ethology is the science of the study of animal behavior. This is a comparatively new science developed during the last century. It deals with the response of animals to various stimuli and factors operating in the environment.

The following chapters are included in this section:

• Books on Behaviour 
• Sensory filtering
• Sign stimuli & Responsiveness
• Learning
• Drive, Urge or Motivation
• Alarm pheromones
• Crypsis & predator-prey relationship
• Social organisation in insects
• Social behavior in primates
• Courtship display & sexual conflicts
• Orientation, navigation & homing
• Kinship, selfishness and altruism
• Chronobiology (Biological rhythms)
  
• Methods of studying animal behavior