ABSTRACT
The eventual adoption of animal behavior as a scientific area of investigation in psychology is traceable to the fact that students of prominent men began to use animals as subjects for dissertation research. The academic zoologists of the same period were just as slow to make animal behavior an academic discipline, and when they did integrate ethology they did so partially on the excuse that behavior could be used as a taxanomic indicator. Actually, both psychologists and zoologists borrowed problems and techniques from the amateurs who were the major contributors to the science.
