Behaviour Flashcards
Define natural behaviour
Behaviour that would occur in the wild and promotes biological functioning
Define atypical behaviour
Behaviour that doesn’t have a clear function, could harm individual, could be caused but stress and anxiety
What does foraging mean
Searching for, capturing and consuming food
What does hunting mean
Predatory behaviour where one member of a species captures a member of the other species
Define domestication
Humans have physiologically and behaviourally modified certain species by selectively breeding and habituating them
Define captive
Wild animals kept in an enclosed area and dependent on human care to fulfill needs
Define wild
Animals living in their natural habitat/range without human care
Define obtrusive
Where the presence of the observer is known to animal
Define inobtrusive
Use of remote technologies to monitor animals behaviour
What’s state behaviour
Behaviour that happens continuously
What’s event behaviour
A behaviour that happens for very short periods of time
What’s focal continuous
Watching one animal constantly throughout the observational period
What’s interval scan
Record what all members of group are doing at set moments of the observation period
Who is Nicholas Tinbergen
A man who wanted to observe animals in their natural habitat
What’s was tinbergens 4 questions
Survival value-what is it for
Ontogeny- how did it develop during the life time of the individual
Evolution- how did it evolve over the history of the species
Causation- how does it work
What’s ontogeny
When in the lifetime of the individual a behaviour develops
Define instinctive behaviour
A behaviour that is apparent from birth hasn’t been taught or learnt
Define learned behaviour
A behaviour that is acquired over time / not apparent from birth
Define trial and error learning
The animal encounters a problem so repeatedly trials solutions and when successful they repeat that behaviour, therefore learnt new behaviour
Define observational behaviour
When an individual watches another and copies that behaviour
Define social learning theory
The transfer of information from a more experienced individual to another naive one using direct interaction
Define inter specific communication
Communication between individuals from different species
Define intra specific communications
Communication between individuals of the same species
What are fixed action patterns
Series of set actions that are triggered by key stimulus
