Ethology

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour (U.S. behavior), and a sub-topic of zoology. Ethology overlaps, to some extent, with psychology. Psychology is a social science which studies human behaviour, but many psychologists have done experiments on learning in animals.^[1] Ethology studies animal behaviour, but many ethologists have been interested in human behaviour.^[2]

1. ↑ Thorndike, Kohler and Skinner, for example.
2. ↑ Thorpe W.H. 1979. The origins and rise of ethology: the science of the natural behaviour of animals. Heinneman, London. ISBN 0435624415