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Delve into the intriguing world of animal behavior with this comprehensive guide covering innate, learned, and pattern behaviors, as well as communication methods. Understand how genetics and environment influence animal reactions to their surroundings and learn about various behavior types and communication signals in the animal kingdom. Explore examples like pollination by orchard bees, classical conditioning in dogs, and courtship rituals in animals. Discover the fascinating ways animals adapt and interact with their environment through behavior and communication.
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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) • Asks “why” (the behavior exists) A blue orchard bee pollinates a zinnia.
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
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
BioEd Online Patterns of Behavior in Animals • Courtship • Parental care • Defensive • Foraging • Territorial • Periodic or Cyclic • Migration Black Swan nesting, Cygnus atratus
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