ethologistn.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Ethologist,..a Mimick, one who expresses other Peoples Manners by Voice or Gesture.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Ethologist, one that shews the manners of others, one that imitates the customs and manners of others.

1809 G. Burnett tr. J. Milton Prose Wks. II. 409 You have fantastically got up this fable, as if for scenic representation, bravely embellished, after what ethologist [L. ethologum] I know not, with comic introductions and pithy sentences, as baits for vulgar ears.

1849 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 16 June 371/2 Let us not be told that fictions succeed when they are mere sketches of character..; we are..not depreciating the merit of ethologists and colourists as such, but denying that they are..artists.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Ethologist, one who writes on the subject of manners and morality.

1844 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 16 88 Many elements of the social state are at variance with such creed... A great problem is here set for the ethologist to solve.

1930 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 40 155 Whether ethologist or polemicist, M. Bayet..deems himself exempt from ‘founding’ his personal faith on his very conception of ethics.

1905 Science 7 Apr. 536/1 It might even be said that the ethologist has no right to speak of a process as a character or characteristic.

1957 New Scientist 12 Sept. 38/2 Ethologists have set about a detailed study of ‘instinctive’ behaviour in many mammals including man.

1993 G. Cashman What Causes War? ii. 16 The major thesis of the ethologists is that man is the product of two million years of biological evolution.

2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies iii. 58 If the eggs are scattered by, say, an ethologist or during an aggressive encounter with another earwig, they quickly gather them together again.