Ethological Poetics (opens in new tab)

1. A Compass Ethology: the study of animal behaviour in natural environments, from late 17c., ‘mimicry, art of depicting characters by mimic gestures,’ from Latin ethologia, from Greek ēthologia, from ēthos, ‘character’. Poetics: of or pertaining to poetry or poets, from or influenced by French poetique (c. 1400), from Latin poeticus, from Greek poiētikos, ‘pertaining to poetry’, literally ‘creative, productive,’ from poiētos, ‘made’, verbal adjective of poiein, ‘to make’. 2. A Forest Opera T...