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American Zoologist 1985 25(3):695-706; doi:10.1093/icb/25.3.695
© 1985 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Ethology, Zoosemiotic and Sociobiology1

JACK P. HAILMAN
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Current research reveals that the somewhat separate subdisciplines ethology, zoosemiotic and sociobiology function together in clarifying animal behavior. Ethology is taken as the study of individual behavioral patterns, zoosemiotic as the study of animal communication, and sociobiology as the study of social organization. The explosive progress in all research areas cannot be summarized briefly but examples are drawn to provide the flavor of each subdiscipline and their interactions. Among the illustrative topics selected are behavioral development, animal orientation, signal structure, the context of communication, language, mating systems and cooperative breeding. At junctures some possible paths toward future study are identified, but the concluding examples point to the principal theme and prediction: the integrated study of behavior combining historically distinct approaches—which promises to help clarify not only the lives of our fellow earthly inhabitants but our own lives as well.


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