Animal Behavior

1. Chapter 1, Lesson 2 Animal Behavior

2. Animal behavior: is how an animal responds to the environment around it. • Some animals know how to behave, but sometimes they learn how. • Innate behavior: • is the inherited behavior that doesn’t depend on learning or experience. • Some innate behaviors are present at birth, but others develop months or years after birth. • Learned behavior: • is the behavior that has been learned from experience or from observing other animals.

3. Examples of innate behaviors: • Puppies inherit the tendency to chew. • Bees inherit the tendency to fly. • Newborn whales have the ability to swim. • Walking for humans. • Examples of learned behaviors: • Humans inherit the • tendency to speak, but • they learn languages.

4. Survival Behavior: • 1. Finding food: They find it in many ways. • Examples: • bees flying from flower to flower. • koalas climb trees to get leaves. • Chimpanzee use tools to get food. • Owls hunt mice. • Animals that eat other animals are known as predators. • The animal being eaten is the prey.

5. Survival Behavior: • 2. Marking territory: • Territory: is an area that is occupied by one animal or a group of animals that don’t allow other members of the species to enter. • Examples: • Some birds sing to mark a territory. • Animals use territories for mating, raising young, and finding food.

6. Survival Behavior: • 3. Defensive action: • It allows animals to protect resources from other animals. • They defend food, mates, offspring and territory. • Examples: •  Making themselves hard to see “camouflage”. •  running. •  Injection a powerful acid into their attackers.

7. Survival Behavior: • 4. Courtship: • Courtships are special behaviors that help animals find a mate to reproduce. • Examples: • Some birds and fish build nests to attract a mate. • Some use special movements or dances or sounds to attract a mate.

8. Survival Behavior: • 5. Parenting: •  Many young animals depend on their parents for survival. • Some adults bring food to their young, and some, as the killer whale, spend years teaching their young how to hunt for food.

9. Seasonal Behavior: • Migration: • Animals avoid cold weather by travelling to warmer places. • They migrate to find food, water, or safe shelter. • Examples: • Whales, salmon, bats, some birds, bats and chimpanzees.

10. Seasonal Behavior: • 2. Slowing down: • Hibernation:is a period of inactivity and decreased body temperature that some animals experience in winter against cold weather and lack of food. • They survive on stored body fats. • Examples: • Mice, squirrels and bears.

11. Seasonal Behavior: • 2. Slowing down: • estivation:is a period of inactivity and decreased body temperature that some animals experience in summer against hot weather and lack of food. • Examples: • Desert mice and squirrels.

12. Seasonal Behavior: • 3. A biological clock: • is the internal daily or seasonal control of an animal’s natural cycles. •  Animals need it to know when to store food and when to migrate. •  Circadian rhythms: is the daily biological cycle. • It means that the animal mostly wakes up and gets sleepy at about the same time.

13. Seasonal Behavior: • 4. Cycles of change: •  Many animals hibernate at certain times of the year, and reproduce at other times. This helps young to survive. •  Also, migration patterns and life cycles’ changes in animals are controlled by seasonal cycles.