<P> Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior under natural conditions , as opposed to behaviourism , which focuses on behavioral response studies in a laboratory setting . Ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behavior and the understanding of behavior in terms of the theory of natural selection . In one sense , the first modern ethologist was Charles Darwin , whose book , The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , influenced many future ethologists . </P>
<P> Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior under natural conditions , as opposed to behaviourism , which focuses on behavioral response studies in a laboratory setting . Ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behavior and the understanding of behavior in terms of the theory of natural selection . In one sense , the first modern ethologist was Charles Darwin , whose book , The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , influenced many future ethologists . </P>
name the branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of animal behaviour
name the branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of animal behaviour
Ethology
Ethology