Problem
Pick one of the scientists detailed, the History of the Study of Animal Behavior (Lorenz, Tinbergen, von Frisch, Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner, or anyone else in the chapter). Choose a scientist not mentioned in your book, as long as you provide reasoning as to how this scientist impacted the field of animal behavior.
Discuss the person's field of study (e.g., Comparative Psychology, Ethology, Zoology). Identify and detail one study conducted by this scientist. What questions were they attempting to answer? Were these questions at the proximate or ultimate level of analysis? What were the results of the study and what was the impact to the field of animal behavior?
Alternatively, instead of focusing on a specific scientist, choose to focus on a specific culture and discuss indigenous or non-Western viewpoints. If option is chosen, discuss how the culture you picked tends to view animals and human-animal relationships. What is/was the role of animals in this society (i.e., were animals companions, working animals, or wild animals)? How did people tend to interact with animals (i.e., were they trained)? What information about animal behavior did this culture share? Have these viewpoints impacted the field of animal behavior? If not, how can the field of animal behavior work to incorporate additional viewpoints to form a more holistic discipline?