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Ethologist case studies
- Dian Fossey
- Studied social behaviour
in apes.
- Fossey studied mountain Gorillas in Africa between
1967 and 1985
- Fossey, like Goodall, spent time with the Gorillas in
their natural habitat- she watched the animals to see
how they behaved and recorded what they saw
- Gorillas are social animals (animals that live in groups)
and that is what Fossey saw
- E.g. The Gorillas worked together to find food, groomed
each other and warned the others of potential predators
- Jane Goodall
- Studied social behaviour in apes.
- Goodall studied
chimpanzees in Tanzania
between 1960 and 2005
- Goodall, like Fossey, spent
time with the chimpanzees in
their natural habitat- she
watched the animals to see
how they behaved and
recorded what they saw
- Chimpanzees are social animals
(animals that live in groups) and
that is what Goodall saw
- E.g. The chimpanzees worked together to find food, groomed each other and warned the
others of potential predators
- Konrad Lorenz
- Studied
imprinting in
goose chicks.
- Looked at how baby birds like
ducklings recognise their mother
and learn to follow her around
- He took 2 groups of eggs: 1 group
was hatched by their own mother,
the other was hatched in an
incubator
- The first moving object that the geese saw,
would be their mother, that's why they
would follow her around. This is what
happened to the first group of eggs
- The first moving object that group 2 saw was
Lorenz. The ducklings thought that he was their
mother and followed him around- this is
imprinting.
- Nikolaas Tinbergen
- Studied innate
behaviour in gulls.
- Newly hatched gull chicks
know how to peck at their
parent's beak to ask for
food.
- Tinbergen showed the chicks different coloured spots on
a cardboard gull to see if the chicks pecked at it
- Gulls have a red spot on the beak
- The majority of the chicks pecked at the red spot on the gull
- Ethology
- Ethology is the study of animal
behaviour. Experiments are
usually taken under the
animal's natural habitat.
- A person who studies animal behaviour is called an ethologist