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Behavioral ecology
Behavioral ecology
is the study of the
evolutionary
basis for
animal behavior
due to
ecological
pressures. Behavioral ecology emerged from
ethology
after
Niko Tinbergen
outlined
four questions
to address when studying animal behavior which are the
proximate causes
,
ontogeny
,
survival value
, and
phylogeny
of behavior.
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