Preferred Term:
animal behavior
Definition:
The scientific study of the behavior of an animal in its natural environment.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
NALT Core
NALT Core
Narrower Concepts:
- cannibalism
- drifting (animal behavior)
- pecking
- animal preferences
- imprinting behavior
- avoidance behavior
- host seeking
- roosting behavior
- searching behavior
- broodiness
- burrowing
- predation
- insect behavior
- grooming (animal behavior)
- antipredatory behavior
- fish behavior
- aggregation behavior
- dust bathing
- territoriality
- social dominance
- reproductive behavior
- animal communication
- displacement activities
- dispersal behavior
- marking behavior
- nesting
- kin recognition
- rearing
- by-product mutualism
- tonic immobility
- escape behavior
- stinging
- group effect
- robbing
Entry Terms:
- animal behaviour
- ethology
- animal response (behaviour)
- animal ethology
- animal response (behavior)
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5156
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