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The ultimate and proximate causes, which determine the mating-display behavior.
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Ethologists performed many experiments in order to understand the behavior of species and biology of species. The main idea of the ethology field of study is to explain the relationship of physiological and phylogenetical of the facets involved in the determination of behavior.
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