Animal sociology
The term animal sociology was introduced in the 1920s for a subfield of what was then known as animal psychology , in which the social behavior of animals was researched, especially their interaction, for example in packs , swarms or nesting groups . While the term plant sociology for a method in vegetation science in the field of botany has survived to this day, the term animal sociology has not caught on in behavioral biology .
Animal sociology is not a technical term within sociology either.
literature
Nikolaas Tinbergen : On the sociology of the herring gull , Larus a. argentatus Pont. In: Contributions to the reproductive biology of birds , Volume 12, 1936, pp. 89-96
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the difference between animal and plant populations see Ludwig Trepl: History of Ecology . Frankfurt am Main 1987: page 161.