Relating to ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior in natural environments.
From Greek ēthos (character, nature) + -logical (study of). Ethology emerged as a formal discipline in the 1930s with researchers like Konrad Lorenz observing wild animal behavior.
Lorenz's discovery that goslings 'imprint' on the first moving thing they see—even him!—showed behavior comes from interaction with environment, not just genetic programming.
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