AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -ethology, the study of animal behaviour.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ethology is the scientific study of non-human animal behavior, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today ethology as a disciplinary label has largely been replaced by behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology.

Detailed explanation-4: -2021 Konrad Lorenz, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist from Austria, formalized the study of animal behavior, or ethology, in the middle of the twentieth century.-

Detailed explanation-5: -No, ethology is not the same as zoology, but it is a part of the field of zoology. Ethology is the study of animal behavior. As animal behavior is one aspect of the large field of zoology, the study of animals, all ethologists are a type of zoologist, but not all zoologists are ethologists.