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Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern [[discipline]] of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]] and Austrian biologist [[Konrad Lorenz]], joint winners of the 1973 [[Nobel Prize]] in medicine. Ethology is a combination of laboratory and field [[science]], with strong ties to certain other [[disciplines]] — e.g., neuroanatomy, [[ecology]], [[evolution]]. Ethologists are typically interested in a behavioral [[process]] rather than in a particular animal group and often study one type of behavior (e.g. aggression) in a number of unrelated animals.

Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern [[discipline]] of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]] and Austrian biologist [[Konrad Lorenz]], joint winners of the 1973 [[Nobel Prize]] in medicine. Ethology is a combination of laboratory and field [[science]], with strong ties to certain other [[disciplines]] — e.g., neuroanatomy, [[ecology]], [[evolution]]. Ethologists are typically interested in a behavioral [[process]] rather than in a particular animal group and often study one type of behavior (e.g. aggression) in a number of unrelated animals.

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Animal nature''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Animals this link].</center>

<center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''Animals''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Animals this link].</center>

The desire to understand the animal world has made ethology a rapidly growing field, and since the turn of the 21st century, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as animal [[communication]], [[personal]] [[symbolic]] name use, animal [[emotion]]s, animal [[culture]] and learning, and even [[sexuality|sexual conduct]], long thought to be well understood, have been revolutionized, as have new fields such as neuroethology.

The desire to understand the animal world has made ethology a rapidly growing field, and since the turn of the 21st century, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as animal [[communication]], [[personal]] [[symbolic]] name use, animal [[emotion]]s, animal [[culture]] and learning, and even [[sexuality|sexual conduct]], long thought to be well understood, have been revolutionized, as have new fields such as neuroethology.