ethnozoologyn.
/ˌɛθnəʊzuːˈɒlədʒi/, /ˌɛθnəʊzəʊˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˌzuˈɑlədʒi/, /ˌɛθnoʊˌzoʊˈɑlədʒi/ The traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning animals; the scientific study or description of this.
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the world > animals > zoology > [noun] > specific aspects or disciplines
tetrapodology1764
zoophysiology1803
animal science1819
zoochemistry1835
animal psychology1838
marine zoology1840
palaeozoology1843
zoogeography1851
cainozoology1861
zoography1869
ethology1874
zoophysics1887
neontology1889
zoopraxography1891
ethnozoology1899
behavioural scientist1940
zoosemiotics1963
1899 Amer. Anthropologist 1 46 American Indian zoölogy, or ethnozoölogy in America.
1919 L. E. Young Dr. John Rocky Park 36 Even in ethnology, he had ideas concerning ethno-botany and ethno-zoology that scientists are accepting today.
1972 Man 7 232 The distinction between placental and marsupial is of absolutely no significance in Nuaulu ethnozoology.
2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 16 Sept. 47 Up-to-date and impeccable natural sciences, folklore (quoted, not believed) and what one might call ethnozoology.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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