Summary:
- Animal behavior includes all the ways that animals interact with each other and the environment.
- Ethologists usually study how animals behave in their natural environment, rather than in a lab.
- Whether behaviors are controlled mainly by genes or by the environment is often a matter of debate.
- Most animal behaviors are not controlled by nature or nurture alone.
- Instead, they are influenced by both nature and nurture.Behaviors that improve fitness increase through natural selection.
- behaviors that put oneself at risk could actually increase throughnatural selection.