Animal studies is the interdisciplinary study of animals including anthropology, biology, history, psychology, and philosophy.
Animal studies or animal research may refer to: Animal testing or animal experimentation, the use of non-human animals in experiments Ethology, the study of animal behavior Anthrozoology, the study of human-animal interaction Animality studies, an academic field focused on the cultural study of animals Animal science, the study of animals under human use Zoology, the scientific study of animals, encompassing many of the above disciplines