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Animal Behavior

Animal Behavior. Behavior. All the actions an animal performs. Includes: Obtaining food Avoid predators Finding a mate Evolved over time How?. Behavior. Everything reacts to stimulus (something to make you react). What was your response?

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Animal Behavior

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  1. Animal Behavior

  2. Behavior • All the actions an animal performs. • Includes: • Obtaining food • Avoid predators • Finding a mate • Evolved over time • How?

  3. Behavior • Everything reacts to stimulus (something to make you react). • What was your response? • Behaviors function to assist in survival and reproduction. • Hiding • Nest building • Searching for a mate • Some are instincts or innate (an inborn response to a stimuli i.e. coughing)

  4. Learned Behaviors • Imprinting-first few movements a newborn sees is the mother ( a mental picture engrained). • Keeps new-born near mother and learn what others in their species look like. • Conditioning is a learned response to a good or bad stimulus. (Homework done correctly = 100). • Trial-and-Error is learning to perform a task more skillfully over time. • Insight learning -problem solving applying reasoning

  5. Communication • Use scents, sounds, and body language to communicate. • Pheromones are scents that affect other’s behavior. • Aggression is a threatening behavior to gain control over others. • Marking territory

  6. Behavior cycles • Circadian cycles-daily behavior cycle (work during day and sleep at night). • Hibernation- a state of reduced activity during the winter when food is scarce. • Migration is a regular seasonal journey from one place to another and back again. • To find food • Find more suitable living area • Find a mate • Behavioral adaptation that has evolved over time to help animals survive.

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