David McFarland (born Dec 31, 1938) Professor McFarland is an ethologist and writer.
He is a scientist specialising in the field of animal behaviour and more recently the broadening of this understanding to "artificial ethology", links to human AI and robotics.
He is a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.
He is the author of a number of leading and influential books including Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology, and Evolution, and The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour.
He is also the author of the Dictionary of Animal Behaviour, published by Oxford Paperback Reference in 2006.