Animal Behaviourists
Science: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 1.10.1
Animal Behaviourists
We rely on the work of animal behaviourists to help us understand organisms in the natural world.
Animal behaviourists
- Animal behaviourists study how animals behave in the wild.
- Animal behaviourists examine how animals behave with other organisms and their environment.
- Animal behaviourists observe how animals reproduce, sleep and feed.
Jane Goodall
- Jane Goodall is an animal behaviourist that studied how chimpanzees behaved with each other.
- Goodall saw that chimpanzees have their own personalities.
- Goodall also saw that they could express emotions like sorrow and joy.
Dian Fossey
- Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas.
- Fossey found they had features similar to those of chimpanzees and humans.
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Animal behaviourists study how animals behave in what sort of environment?