Ethology or the study of animal behaviour

The modern discipline of ethology, or animal behaviour, is considered to have arisen with the study of primates in the 1960s. The desire to understand the animal world and their behavioural processes, such as animal communication or emotions, has turned ethology into a rapidly growing field of research. From the sardines to the cachalot, the study of ethology permits a better knowledge of a number of barely known and unrelated animals. With most of the worlds fisheries over exploited or depleted, we realise today that so many unknown species are disappearing before we have even discovered them.

Projects to be carried out onboard:

  • Pelagos sanctuary for cetaceans,
  • Gibraltar Straits  cetaceans,
  • “Monk seals” in the ionic islands in Greece
  • Sound pollution (Michel André)