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Animal Behavior. Animal Behavior. Behavior : anything an animal does in response to a stimulus in its environment. Innate Behavior. Inherited behavior Examples Reflex- simplest innate behavior with no conscience control suckling Instinct- complex pattern of innate behaviors
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Animal Behavior • Behavior: anything an animal does in response to a stimulus in its environment
Innate Behavior • Inherited behavior • Examples • Reflex- simplest innate behavior with no conscience control • suckling • Instinct- complex pattern of innate behaviors • Web building or nest building
Instinctive Behaviors Sarus Craneplanet earth birds of paradise birds of paradise • Courtship- behaviors males and females carry out before mating • Discourages interbreeding between wrong species • Sounds, visual displays, dances, chemical signals
Territoriality - defense of a physical space, territory • Songs, calls, intimidation, marking territory, attack, chase bashing-bison.
Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Circadian rhythm – 24 hour cycle of behavior • diurnal leaf movement • Sleep patterns
Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Migration- seasonal or periodic movement -wildebeest-migration Monarchs
Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Hibernation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through cold winter
Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Estivation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through hot summer
Learned Behavior • Learned Behavior-behavior that changes through practice or experience • Habituation • Animal is given stimulus without punishment or reward • Leads to lack of response • Gets “used to” • Examples: people sleeping through train • habituation and the rat
Learned Behavior Duck loves Dog • Imprinting • Partially instinct • Attachment to an object during a certain time in an animals life
Learned Behavior • Trial and Error • Learning where animal is rewarded for a particular response
Learned Behavior • Conditioning • Learning in which an animal connects a stimulus with a certain behavior • Learning by association • Pavlov’s dogs • conditioning and pavlov
Learned Behavior • Insight • Animal uses its experience to respond to something new • Problem solving the box and the banana
Communication • Exchange of information that results in a change in behavior • Sounds, body movements, facial expressions, chemicals bees-navigation