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Concept information
Preferred term
animal behavior
Type
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Topic
Definition
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The scientific study of the behavior of an animal in its natural environment.
Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff
Type: Concept definition
Narrower concepts
- abnormal behavior
- activity budget
- aggregation behavior
- animal communication
- animal exercise wheel
- animal preferences
- antipredatory behavior
- avoidance behavior
- Boomer balls
- broodiness
- burrowing
- by-product mutualism
- cannibalism
- dispersal behavior
- displacement activities
- drifting (animal behavior)
- dust bathing
- environmental enrichment
- escape behavior
- feeding behavior
- fish behavior
- grooming (animal behavior)
- group effect
- host seeking
- imprinting behavior
- insect behavior
- kin recognition
- manipulanda
- marking behavior
- maternal behavior
- mirrors
- music enrichment
- nesting
- nesting behavior
- occupational enrichment
- pecking
- physical enrichment
- predation
- rearing
- reproductive behavior
- robbing
- roosting behavior
- searching behavior
- sensory enrichment
- social behavior
- stinging
- territoriality
- tonic immobility
- toys
- training (animals)
Synonyms
- animal behaviour
- animal ethology
- animal response (behavior)
- animal response (behaviour)
- ethology
In other languages
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Spanish
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comportamiento animal
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etología
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etología animal
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respuesta animal
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5156
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