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  • noun Plural form of ethologist.

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Examples

  • On the strength of this evidence, I don't think musicologists need worry that ethologists will encroach on their territory.

    Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

  • She gave names to her subjects and became emotionally engaged with them, which horrified more than a few ethologists and evoked stern criticism.

    Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science 2010

  • This is exactly what ethologists do when studying animal intelligence (or lack of same).

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • This is exactly what ethologists do when studying animal intelligence (or lack of same).

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • The result (the so-called g factor) remains controversial, and without conceptual interpretation even when applied exclusively to humans; it is even more problematic when ethologists attempt to broaden the concept to animals in general.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • Could I have forgotten that psychologists study human intelligence, and ethologists study animal intelligence, and AI researchers study machine intelligence?

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • She gave names to her subjects and became emotionally engaged with them, which horrified more than a few ethologists and evoked stern criticism.

    Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science 2010

  • Could I have forgotten that psychologists study human intelligence, and ethologists study animal intelligence, and AI researchers study machine intelligence?

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Part of the accomplishment of early ethologists such as Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and Karl Von Frisch was to show that behaviors evolve by natural selection, just like morphological, physiological, and life history traits.

    David Sloan Wilson: Evolution and War: Back to Basics 2009

  • Well, because there is more than one way to look at animal behavior and scientists who study animal behavior which include psychologists, ethologists, applied animal behaviorists, and behavioral ecologists.

    Live Blogging Professional Scientific Conferences - International Ethological Conference DNLee 2009

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