neuroethology
thumb|right|Animal Echolocation|Echolocation in bats is one model system in neuroethology.
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- Scope
- History
- Modern neuroethology
- Application to technology
- Case studies
- Jamming avoidance response
- Feature analysis in toad vision
- Computational neuroethology
- Model systems
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- Textbooks
- Articles
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thumb|right|Animal Echolocation|Echolocation in bats is one model system in neuroethology.
Neuroethology is the evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by the nervous system. It is an interdisciplinary science that combines both neuroscience (study of the nervous system) and ethology (study of animal behavior in natural conditions). A central theme of neuroethology, which differentiates it from other branches of neuroscience, is its focus on behaviors that have been favored by natural selection (e.g., finding mates, navigation, locomotion, and predator avoidance) rather than on behaviors that are specific to a particular disease state or laboratory experiment.