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Observational techniques for animal behavior have had a long history in scientific investigation, and there is little doubt that some people just enjoy watching animals. The development of ethology as a scientific discipline in the past 20 years has been a factor in the current recrudescence of interest in animal behavior. Several other factors may also have contributed to the present situation: the development of numerical taxonomy, and recognition that behavior has taxonomic importance; the increasing sophistication of conditioning techniques, leading to a recognition that behavior is too complex for any simple analytical scheme; and even the availability of computers for handling bulk data.
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Norton, S. (1977). The Study of Sequences of Motor Behavior. In: Iversen, L.L., Iversen, S.D., Snyder, S.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4214-4_3
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