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Diversity of Life: Animal Behavior

BioEd Online. Diversity of Life: Animal Behavior. BioEd Online. Animal Behavior. The way an organism reacts to changes in its external or internal environment Influenced by genetics and environment Asks “how” (the behavior is triggered, controlled, performed)

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Diversity of Life: Animal Behavior

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  1. BioEd Online Diversity of Life:Animal Behavior

  2. BioEd Online Animal Behavior • The way an organism reacts to changes in its external or internal environment • Influenced by genetics and environment • Asks “how” (the behavior is triggered, controlled, performed) • Asks “why” (the behavior exists) A blue orchard bee pollinates a zinnia.

  3. BioEd Online Innate Animal Behavior • Instinctive or inborn • Fully functional first time performed • Some improve with performance ormaturation • Examples: • Nest building • Suckling • Weaving a web Sow with piglet Female orb weaver with prey

  4. BioEd Online Learned Animal Behavior • Acquired/modified by experience • Types • Habituation • Association • Classical conditioning • Operant conditioning (trial and error) • Insight (reasoning) • Imprinting Classical conditioning of dogs

  5. BioEd Online Patterns of Behavior in Animals • Courtship • Parental care • Defensive • Foraging • Territorial • Periodic or Cyclic • Migration Black Swan nesting, Cygnus atratus

  6. BioEd Online Animal Communication • Transmission, reception of, and response to signals constitutes communication • Signals cause changes in behavior • Visual, auditory, tactile, chemical • Examples • Pheromones • Dance of the honeybee • Bird songs • Feigning of injury A bee, Osmia ribifloris, on a barberry flower

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