Animal behaviour

Question 1

what is inherited behaviour?

Answer 1

innate, instinct, important for survival of species

Question 2

what is acquired behaviour?

Answer 2

adopt useful method of survival within the enviorment

Question 3

what are the two types of inherited behaviour?

Answer 3

reproductive and maintenence

Question 4

behaviour of maintenence is used for

Answer 4

constant behavioural patterns to keep themselves alive

Question 5

reproductive behaviour is used for

Answer 5

needed to maintain animal species

Question 6

what is ingestive behaviour?

Answer 6

it is eating, drinking. this is critical to animal reproduction

Question 7

when horses excretiate they

Answer 7

turn around and sniff the point

Question 8

A dog

Answer 8

uses one leg

Question 9

what is self grooming?

Answer 9

self grooming is cleaning the body of parasites, they do this by licking areas where they can touch

Question 10

what is mutual grooming?

Answer 10

one animal looking after another one by removing parasites that they cant reach themselves

Question 11

what is a stimulus

Answer 11

a change in the enviourment, examples of this are wind, tempreture, light, water

Question 12

what is behaviour?

Answer 12

an organisms response to a change in the enviorment

Question 13

is the knee jerk reflex a innnate or learned

Answer 13

innate for stability and to walk

Question 14

is a chimp using tools innate or learned

Answer 14

learned, to get more food

Question 15

is movement of woodlice inate or learned

Answer 15

innate, its used from survival of predators and not drying out

Question 16

is a giant octopus response to a predator inate or learned

Answer 16

innate, it is used to hide from predators

Question 17

is a earthworms response to a preadator innate or learned

Answer 17

innate, it is used for survival

Question 18

is a venus fly trap innate or learned

Answer 18

innate because of survival

Question 19

is walking innate or learned

Answer 19

learned because of survival

Question 20

is talking innate or learned

Answer 20

learned for communication

Question 21

is birds not eating orange butterflies innate or learned

Answer 21

learned to avoid unpleasant tastes

Question 22

is rats operating levers innate or learned

Answer 22

learned to get a reward

Question 23

is dogs sitting on command innate or learned

Answer 23

learned to get food as a treat

Question 24

is swallowing food conditioned or innate

Answer 24

innate

Question 25

what are the advantages or innate behaviour

Answer 25

it normally increases chances of survival

Question 26

what is a behaviour

Answer 26

it is an instinct that the animal does not know how to do

Question 27

what is classical conditioning

Answer 27

when to stimuli are linked together to create a new learned behaviour

Question 28

what is operant conditioning

Answer 28

trial and error which are accosiated with food and sanctions

Question 29

what is habituation

Answer 29

a learned behaviour when the animal stops its response, the advantages are that it doesent waste energy and the disadvantage is if it becomes habituated it could be in danger

Question 30

what is social behaviour

Answer 30

social behaviour is heirarchy, meaning when certain individuals play higher roles than others according to relative status or authority

Question 31

habituation in snails

Answer 31

when a snail is touched between their eyestalks they will retreat into their shells, when you keep on doing this they will become habituated and stop retreating back into their shells. the response is it hiding in its shells and the stimulus is the person touching in between the eye stalks

Question 32

animal behaviour

Answer 32

most animals have a alpha male or female, in order to sustain this everyone must be happy with the role that they are playing. to do this they need to be able to communicate

Question 33

social behaviour

Answer 33

this is when organisms living together have defined roles

Question 34

what are the advantages of social behaviour

Answer 34

increases survival rates, protection security and comunication