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Basic Animal Behavior Flashcards

1
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4 basic reasons why animals behave

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  1. To Find food
  2. To interact in social groups
  3. To avoid predators
  4. To reproduce
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2
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Animal behaviors usually are strategies for ___________.

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Survival

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3
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Study of animal behavior

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Ethology

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4
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The way an animal reacts to the certain stimulus with activity or inactivity

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Behavior

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5
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Something that elicits a response

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Stimulus

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6
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2 types of Stimuli and definition

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External Stimulus(outside e.g sound, smell, sight etc.)
Internal Stimulus(inside e.g hunger, fatigue, feeling cold, hormones)

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7
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Attributing human emotions and need to be careful about ascribing human emotions to animals

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Anthropomorphism

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8
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Social behavior occurs in every culture, genetically determined.

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Cultural Universals

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9
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Systematic study of a biological bases of all social behaviors in animals.

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Sociobiology

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10
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3 causes behavioral responses in animals

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  1. Heredity(internal factors)
  2. Learning experiences(external factors)
  3. Intelligence(interaction of 1to2)
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11
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Give heredity produces response in several ways

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Affects the growth and development of body parts such us sensory or motor organs
All animals have brain and domestic
Genes

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12
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Animals show fixed behavioral responses when subjected to certain environmental stimuli

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Experience and learning

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13
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The ability of animals to learn to adjust successfully to environmental situations

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Intelligence

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14
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4 types of learning in animals

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  1. Habituation
  2. Conditioning(classical and operant)
  3. Insight Learning
  4. Imprinting
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15
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Animal learned not to respond to a stimulus e.g. “cry-wolf”

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Habituation

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16
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Associative learning between normal body condition and a new stimulus e.g. dog salvation with a ringing bell

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Classical conditioning

17
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Animal learns to behave in a certain way through repeated practice e.g. rat pressed lever, gets food

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Operant Conditioning

18
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Animal solves a problem, most complex type of learning)

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Insight learning

19
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Learning at a specific critical time and forms social attachments to another, following the mother

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Imprinting

20
Q

Give 13 types of behavior

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Foraging
Parental care
Courtship
Reproductive
Offensive/Defensive
Territorial
Social
Migratory
Communication
Curiosity
Elimination
Resting
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21
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Behavior associated with recognizing, searching, capturing, consuming food. Food habits are part of the animals niche

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Foraging

22
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Ensuring survival of young

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Parental care

23
Q

4 modes in development with birds

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Superaltricial
Altricial
Precocial
Superprecocial

24
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Attracting a mate

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Courtship

25
Q

Behaviors of animal

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Reproductive

26
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Different kind of mating system

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Polygamy(more than one mate during breeding season)
Promiscuity(males and females have multiple mates)
Polygyny( males mate with more than one female)
Polyandry(female mate with more than one male)

27
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Aggression, submissive behavior, defense from aggressors e.g flight, hide,escape

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Offensive/ defensive

28
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Protect the resources

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Territorial

29
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Work to create alliances, help the group

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Social

30
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Movement to a more sustainable environment as seasons change

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Migratory

31
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Signaling between one animal and another

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Communication

32
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Why animals communicate?

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Defense(warn away)
Alliance(get helper or mate)
Elicit play

33
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Methods that animals used

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Auditory
Visual
Tactile
Chemical(pheromones)
Electrical

34
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Bark, growl, snort, howl, hoot, chirp, whinny, alarm sound, other language

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Vocalization

35
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Head, body, ear, tail, showing teeth, smilling etc

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Non-verbal signaling

36
Q

Investigating new stumulus in environment

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Curiosity/investigative

37
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Urination and defecation

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Elimination

38
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Apparent inaction

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Resting

39
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The purpose is a training for life defense, hunting etc.

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