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Stress: Ethological Implications

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Psychobiology of Stress

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Ethologists claim to study animal behaviour as biologists. Therefore they focus on qualitative (form) and quantitative (frequency, intensity, sequence) aspects of behaviour as it occurs under natural conditions. Central ethological questions are, among others, 1) the causation and adaptive value of specific behaviour patterns and 2) the way in which individual behaviour develops and results from the interplay between genetic disposition and varying environmental agents or conditions. Ethologists were, and some still are, reluctant to incorporate psychological (mental) factors in their analyses and models of animal behaviour. This reservedness has to do with the fear that such factors could reintroduce the anthropomorphic and often empty explanations of animal behaviour as happened in the first quarter of this century. Just this former attitude in the study of animal behaviour was one of the main reasons to look for another approach: ethology (cf. Tinbergen, 1951). However, with the arrival of cognitive ethology, in which animals are conceived as well — adapted information — processing unities (Roitblat, 1987), opinions and concepts appear to change essentially (Marler and Terrace, 1984).

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Wiepkema, P.R. (1990). Stress: Ethological Implications. In: Puglisi-Allegra, S., Oliverio, A. (eds) Psychobiology of Stress. NATO ASI Series, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1990-7_1

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