Question

To what extent can work of artist benefit the science of animal behaviour? how can i evaluate this?

Answer 1

Animal behaviour is the scientific study of the wild and wonderful ways in which animals interact with each other, with other living beings and with the environment. Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing .behaviour as an evolutionary adaptive trait.

Throughout history different naturalists have studied aspects of animal behaviour. The origin of the scientific study of animal behaviour lie in the works of various European thinkersof the 17th to 19th centuries. Such as British naturalists John Ray and Charles Robbert Darwin and French naturalist Charles Le Roy. His research using images was expanded in 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, one of the 1st books of feature printed photographs, which discussed the evolution of human psychology and its continuity with the behaviour of animals.