Animal Behavior

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Animal Behavior
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Animal Behavior

• Behavior anything an animal does in response to
  a stimulus in its environment

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Innate Behavior

• Inherited behavior
• Examples
• Reflex- simplest innate behavior with no
  conscience control
• suckling
• Instinct- complex pattern of innate behaviors
• Web building or nest building

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Instinctive Behaviors Sarus Crane
planet earth birds of paradise
birds of paradise

• Courtship- behaviors males and females carry out
  before mating
• Discourages interbreeding between wrong species
• Sounds, visual displays, dances, chemical signals

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Territoriality

• - defense of a physical space, territory
• Songs, calls, intimidation, marking territory,
• attack,
• chase

bashing-bison.
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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors

• Circadian rhythm 24 hour cycle of behavior
• diurnal leaf movement
• Sleep patterns

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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors

• Migration- seasonal or periodic movement

-wildebeest-migration Monarchs
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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors

• Hibernation- state of reduced metabolism as
  animals sleep through cold winter

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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors

• Estivation- state of reduced metabolism as
  animals sleep through hot summer

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Learned Behavior

• Learned Behavior-behavior that changes through
  practice or experience
• Habituation
• Animal is given stimulus without punishment or
  reward
• Leads to lack of response
• Gets used to
• Examples people sleeping through train
• habituation and the rat

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Learned Behavior
Duck loves Dog

• Imprinting
• Partially instinct
• Attachment to an object during a certain time in
  an animals life

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Learned Behavior

• Trial and Error
• Learning where animal is rewarded for a
  particular response

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Learned Behavior

• Conditioning
• Learning in which an animal connects a stimulus
  with a certain behavior
• Learning by association
• Pavlovs dogs
• conditioning and pavlov

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• Pavlovs dogs

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Learned Behavior

• Insight
• Animal uses its experience to respond to
  something new
• Problem solving
• the box and the banana

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Communication

• Exchange of information that results in a change
  in behavior
• Sounds, body movements, facial expressions,
  chemicals

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