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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ethology (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Because ethology is understood as a branch of biology, ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behaviour and the understanding of behaviour in terms of the theory of natural selection.
		The early ethologists, such as Oskar Heinroth and Julian Huxley instead concentrated on behaviours that can be called instinctive, or natural, in that they occur in all members of a species under specified circumstances.
		The ethologists noted that the stimuli that released FAPs were commonly features of the appearance or behaviour of other members of their own species, and they were able to show how important forms of animal communication could be mediated by a few simple FAPs.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/Ethology.html (1118 words)

	Ethologist
		An ethologist is a scientist who studies the behavior of animals, particularly social animals such as primates and canids[?].
		Perhaps the best-known ethologist is Jane Goodall, a British scientist who has spent much of her life observing bands of chimpanzees in Gombe[?] National Park in the African nation of Tanzania.
		Another well-known ethologist was Dian Fossey, who was murdered while attempting to study and protect gorillas in the Rwandan province of Ruhengeri[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/et/Ethologist.html (111 words)

	Ethologist Resource Center - ethologist career
		Most commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone ethologist working conditions who establishes a new entity to offer a new or existing product or service into a new or existing market, whether for a profit or not-for-profit venture, a business entrepreneur.
		Research has demonstrated that there is such thing as an "entrepreneurial type," with certain characteristics (such as having a salary of a ethologist father or a mother who was an entrepreneur) linked to the probability of someone being an entrepreneur themselves.
		The entrepreneur, according what does an ethologist do during a day to Knight, is the economic functionary who undertakes such responsibility of uncertainty, which by its very nature cannot be insured, or capitalized or salaried too.
	www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Professions_E_-_F-/Ethologist.html (1062 words)

	Ethology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because ethology is understood as a branch of biology, ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behavior and the understanding of behavior in terms of the theory of natural selection.
		Other early ethologists, such as Oskar Heinroth and Julian Huxley, instead concentrated on behaviors that can be called instinctive, or natural, in that they occur in all members of a species under specified circumstances.
		The ethologists noted that the stimuli that released FAPs were commonly features of the appearance or behavior of other members of their own species, and they were able to show how important forms of animal communication could be mediated by a few simple FAPs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethology (1184 words)

	Science - Animal Behavior
		A psychologist or ethologist is interested in how the whole animal works and the factors that affect it.
		The ultimate goal of ethologists is to understand patterns of animal behavior.
		Ethologists base their work on repeated observations and measurements.
	seaworld.org /Aquademics/tetra/animalbehaviorbackgrounderscience.htm (671 words)

	ISHE - HUMAN ETHOLOGY
		Of particular interest to the ethologist are questions relating to the function of a particular kind of behaviour, e.g.
		In organisms with a high level of organization, the processes in which the ethologist is especially interested are those genetically preprogrammed motor and perceptual processes that facilitate social interaction and communication, such as facial expression and vocalization.
		The essence of this is of course the evolutionary perspective; but since ethologists have been relatively unaffected by the long history of the humanities, they have often referred to facts and interpreta-tions, perhaps obvious, but neglected by other social sciences, in an apparently naive but very effective manner.
	evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at /ishe/ethology.html (748 words)

	Beyond the Dominance Paradigm
		One of the many aspects of behavior that interested these early ethologists was social organization, and much of their initial work attempted to understand how animals related to one another and how they organized their social relationships.
		It is true that, in the '40s and '50s especially, ethologists were fascinated by issues related to social hierarchy and status.
		At the same time that ethologists were discovering social hierarchies in a multitude of species, American animal behaviorists were dispensing food treats and using electric shocks on mice, rats and monkeys to understand the learning process in animals.
	www.4pawsu.com /pmdominance.htm (1433 words)

	Introduction to Ethology
		Ethologists have a special interest in genetically-programmed behaviors known as instincts.
		Ethology differs from the study of Animal Behavior, in that animals behaviorists generally are interested in learned behaviors while ethologists concentrate on innate behaviors.
		Ethologists are picking apart the neuro-endocrine basis of behavior (Fig 31) to explain the proximate reasons behind why animals act they way they do.
	cas.bellarmine.edu /tietjen/Ethology/introduction_to_ethology.htm (3797 words)

	Biography of Richard Dawkins
		Author of The Study of Instinct and winner of the Nobel Prize in biology for his pioneering work on animal behavior, Tinbergen was one of the first of the modern ethologists (biologists who explore and explain the nature of animal behavior).
		The same questions ethologists ask about chicks and geese and chimpanzees are virtually identical to the sorts of questions they should be asking about the genome and its genes.
		As the first true ethologist of the gene, Dawkins de facto became an evolutionary biologist.
	www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk /dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Biography/bio.shtml (2162 words)

	Scientists Seek to Improve Farm Animal Conditions / June 25, 2001 / News from the USDA Agricultural Research Service
		You could call them the “Jane Goodalls of the farm world.” Currently limited to just a handful of practitioners, a new scientific discipline has appeared: animal ethologists who study the behavior not of gorillas or other animals in the wild, but pigs and cows on the farm.
		They are similar to wildlife ethologists in that they observe animals in their natural habitats, as undisturbed as possible.
		The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s hiring this year of farm animal ethologist Donald C. Lay means that two of that handful of new specialists are now federal employees.
	www.ars.usda.gov /is/pr/2001/010625.htm (385 words)

	Konrad Lorenz Summary
		In 1956 he became co-director, along with ethologist Gustav Kramer and physiologist Erich von Helst, of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seeweisen, Bavaria, a position he retained until his retirement in 1973.
		Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and Nobel Prize winner Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was born in Vienna in 1903, the son of a fabulously wealthy orthopedic surgeon.
		Lorenz's most enduring contributions thus seem to be his empirical work, especially on imprinting; his influence on a younger generation of ethologists; and his popular works, which were enormously important in bringing ethology to the attention of the general public.
	www.bookrags.com /Konrad_Lorenz (4965 words)

	About ARS: ARS 50th Anniversary Celebration
		Julie Morrow-Tesch, Research Leader, was an animal ethologist.
		Margaret Shea-Moore was a cognitive ethologist who studied behavior and information processing.
		Our research facility was built, a 13,000 sq ft all-weather metal building with a specially designed floor system and 32 video cameras mounted in the ceiling.
	www.ars.usda.gov /aboutus/50th/histories-photos/MidWest/LBRU.htm (284 words)

	Ethology
		Ethology is sometimes referred to as the Biology of Behavior, indicating the source of the perspective (biology), and the nature of ethologists' take on behavior (the instinctual behavior exhibited by all members of the species).
		An ethologist, on the other hand, would be interested in just those things that the behaviorist wishes to suppress, since she is interested in those actions that make a rat a rat.
		In many respects, these two approaches anchor the two ends of the continuum of constraint, with behaviorists interested in unconstrained behavior, and ethologists interested in constrained behavior.
	employees.csbsju.edu /TCREED/pb/ethology.html (857 words)

	FAQ on human ethology
		That is, mostly the external behaviour is evaluated: that is, as a response to a certain external factors an human (or an animal) behaved in a certain way.
		An ethologist is not too much interested in how the individual himself describes his reasons and motivations.
		An ethologist is interested in anamnesis only to analyse contradictions between the declared behaviour and the actual one.
	darksun.com.pt /mirage/misc/faq_tre.html (8678 words)

	Abode Sciencewatch: "The Way" of the Wavedancers (Article)
		Again, this information is based on the bottlenosed dolphin, but most of it applies equally well to the other species of dolphin.
		(An ethologist is a scientist who observes animals as they go about their lives in their native habitats.) Sure, a Jane Goodall or a Dian Fossey can go out to the jungle armed with a notebook and little else.
		She can usually keep up with the chimps or the gorillas when they're on the move, and sit and take notes while they're at rest.
	home.earthlink.net /~sweetwind7/sendings/dolphin2.html (1428 words)

	Unchain Your Dog.org \| Dogs Need Time off Chain to Learn Good Behavior
		Myrna Milani, a veterinary ethologist and author of several books on animal behavior, agrees.
		This then becomes a tragedy for all involved: the victim, the dog and the owner who is now liable for injuries that could have been avoided.
		"Another thing to consider is that dogs are social animals," says Janice Willard, veterinary ethologist from Moscow, Idaho.
	www.unchainyourdog.org /news/041010DogsNeedTimeOff.htm (725 words)

	RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Professor Richard Dawkins is an ethologist, someone who studies animal behavior, and evolutionary theorist.
		A University of Oxford graduate, he is the first to hold the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.
		He did his doctorate under the Nobel prize-winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen.
	richarddawkins.net /event,29,Lied-Center-Auditorium (372 words)

	DINOFISH.com - JAGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Hans Fricke, of the Max-Planck Institute: ethologist, filmmaker, and leader of the Jago Dive Team.
		Beginning in 1986-7 with the submersible "Geo," the Fricke team made the first films of coelacanths swimming at their natural depth.
		Special Outlink - Jago coelacanth pictures and coelacanth association in Comoros assisted by CRM and Jago dive team.
	www.dinofish.com /jago.html (182 words)

	IT Conversations: Frans de Waal
		A global ethologist and zoologist, de Waal is best known for his work on the social intelligence of primates.
		He thinks that if we ignore the importance of power struggles in the study of human nature, we're making a big mistake.
		An ethologist and zoologist, de Waal is best known for his work on the social intelligence of primates.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail231.html (305 words)

	Animal experiments more stressful than previously recognized
		WASHINGTON--Mice, rabbits, rats, beagles, geese, and other animals all show measurable physiological stress responses to routine laboratory procedures that have been up until now viewed as relatively benign.
		The findings come in a new report published in Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science, based on an extensive review of the scientific literature by ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).
		For example, a mouse who is picked up and briefly held experiences several physiological reactions.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-12/pcfr-aem122804.php (403 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Animal in Its World: Explorations of an Ethologist: Laboratory Experiments and General Papers v. 2 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Amazon.co.uk: The Animal in Its World: Explorations of an Ethologist: Laboratory Experiments and General Papers v.
		Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
		The Animal in Its World: Explorations of an Ethologist: Laboratory Experiments and General Papers v.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0674037286/tangerinedesignb (241 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume II : Laboratory ...
		Harvard University Press: The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume II : Laboratory Experiments and General Papers by Tinbergen
		The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume II
		The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume I: Field Studies
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/TINANY.html (66 words)

	When dogs bark, humans understand
		Between man and man's best friend, the lines of communication are open--at least, that's what a study in the May issue of the Journal of Comparative Psychology (Vol.
		Ethologist Péter Pongrácz, PhD, of Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, found that human listeners could tell whether a dog in an audio recording was acting aggressive, fearful or playful.
		The finding suggests, Pongrácz says, that dog barks play a communicative role in canine-human interaction.
	www.apa.org /monitor/may05/dogs.html (328 words)

	Prakash S. Gangdev's Blog : From the Diary of an Ethologist, Prakash S. Gangdev blogs on sulekha, Religion blogs, ...
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		First you fight the enemies of the nation and drive them out.
	prakash-s-gangdev.sulekha.com /blog/post/2000/08/from-the-diary-of-an-ethologist.htm (1852 words)

	Animal Einsteins: Thinking About Thinking
		But they'll also tell you that the rewards are worth the effort.
		Here is your chance to become an ethologist -- a scientist who studies behavior of animals in their natural environments.
		You can start with your pet or a friend's pet to observe an animal's behavior when it is alone.
	pbs.org /safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_903/4493_thinking.html (528 words)

	Pigdog Journal (An Ethologist's Notebook) -- Ethnic Cleansing, Texas Style
		Pigdog Journal (An Ethologist's Notebook) -- Ethnic Cleansing, Texas Style
		You kids have no idea what it was like watching porn on eight-millimetre film...
		So if a drug seller in Texas gets 400 years, I figure these bozos should spend the next 4000 in the maximum security wing at Huntsville.
	www.pigdog.org /auto/Ethologist/shortcolumn/1742.html (461 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume I : Field Studies ...
		Harvard University Press: The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume I : Field Studies by Tinbergen
		The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume I
		The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume II: Laboratory Experiments and General Papers
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/TINAN1.html?show=catalogcopy (66 words)

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