The study of how different cultures understand, use, and classify animals and animal relationships.
From Greek ethnos (people) + zoon (animal) + -logia (study of). This emerged as a subdiscipline of ethnobiology to document indigenous and folk knowledge about animals.
Some cultures recognize animal species and behaviors that Western science missed—like Indigenous Australian knowledge of animal behavior across incredibly diverse ecosystems.
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