Zoology

Animal Behavior
From the Gale Science Online Collection. This topic overview presents an overview of ethology, including topics such as reflexes, imprinting, habituation, behavior modification, reasoning, and social interaction.

Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Cognitive Ethology as the Unifying Science for Understanding the Subjective, Emotional, Empathic, and Moral Lives of Animals
Zygon 41(1), March 2006. Stresses the importance of interdisciplinary research and collaboration for coming to terms with various aspects of animal behavior and animal cognition.

Ethology
From The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. Short article that defines the topic with further discussion of Concepts in Classic Ethology and Later Developments in Ethology.

Fair play and its connection with social tolerance, reciprocity and the ethology of peace
Behaviour 153, 2016. Through a comparative approach, the authors show how social play in animals may have paved the way for the emergence of peace.

Gale Encyclopedia of Science Articles

• Altruism
  Explores animal behavior that directly benefits others rather than the individual.
• Courtship
  Examines the study of complex set of behaviors in animals that leads to mating. 
• Imprinting
  Describes the learning process during which a younger animal identifies with, and adopts behaviors exhibited by, other animals, usually of the same species.
• Instinct
  Explores the stereotyped species-typical behavior that appears fully functional the first time it is performed, without the need for learning.
• Mimicry
  Describes the imitation or copying of an action or image, and specifically refers to the fascinating resemblance of an organism, called the “mimic,” to another, somewhat distantly related organism, called the “model.”
• Migration
  Discusses the seasonal movements of animals between their breeding territory and a wintering range.
• Territoriality
  Explores the behavior by which an animal lays claim to and defends an area against others of its species, and occasionally members of other species as well.

In Their Dreams
New Scientist 260(3469), December 2013. Studies of the sleep patterns of various animals reveal activity that suggests evidence of dream states.

A Look into the Mind's Eye
Skeptic 29(3), 2024. Explores how human cognitive traits, such as memory and future planning, are reflected in animal behaviors. Topics include the comparison of animal and human cognition, the evolution of intelligence in different species, and the application of findings to artificial intelligence.

The Study of Instinct
From Ten Thousand Birds. Examines instinct and its relationship to ethology and animal behavior.