Physiological and behavioral phenomena an individual animal or species exhibits to survive its environment: camouflage, bioluminescence, hibernation, estivation, metamorphosis and migration. United by acting at the level of the organism or population rather than the whole ecosystem or the planet.
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1. Wikipedia: Ethology
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Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals.
2. Wikipedia: Evolution
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Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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