"Ethology" referring to the study of animal behaviour is about a century old and was (somewhat) popularized through the work of Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, which is where I first saw it.
But it never quite caught on. Even now, as de Waal writes, spell-checkers "regularly change it to ethnology, etiology, or even theology".
A deadpan De Waal on independent-mindedness in dogs and cats
Raccoons solve puzzles for the fun of it, new study finds
Serious question for ethologists / biologists / behaviouralists here: what is the name for those vocalisations ? (prolonged simultaneaous meowing at a distance, probably territorial)
I'd love to know more about it.
https://xcancel.com/SteppeShaman/status/2027803485131919466
#animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #ethology #etholodon #catbehavior #catbehaviour
Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
How Spiders Survive Winter - Travis McEnery
Chimps Are No Chumps: Give Them An Oven, They'll Learn To Cook [2015 article]
A fascinating story of an orangutang cryptologist tiger team performing various replay attacks on orangutang Alice and Eveing what Alice then had to say to Bob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXUcB7SLcM0
#infosec #cryptology #linguistics #ethology #zoology #zoolinguistics
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