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Animal Behavior

Explore the intricate world of animal behavior, from proximate causation to ultimate causation, innate and learned behaviors, communication methods, homeostasis, and social behaviors. Discover how stimuli influence animal actions and learn about fascinating examples of behavioral adaptations in various species.

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Animal Behavior

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  1. Animal Behavior • Ch. 51.1-2; 40.2

  2. Ethology: the study of behavior • How is this happening? • Proximate causation-how a behavior occurs • Genetic basis, physiologic, innate response to a stimulus • Why is this happening? • Ultimate causation- why a behavior occurs • Finding food, regulating temperature, courtship/mating, communication

  3. What is behavior? • an action carried out by muscles under control of the nervous system in response to a stimulus (based on physiological systems and processes) • everything an organism does and how it does it, response to stimuli in the environment • essential for survival and reproduction and subject to natural selection • purpose may include communication with other organisms • examples: songbirds, courtship, scent marking, hunting, maintain homeostasis, migration etc.

  4. Behavioral stimuli may be.. • Environmental • Hormonal • sign (color, object, another organism) • Scent • circadian rhythms (daily behavior cycles triggered by light and dark) • physiologic (internal)

  5. Animal Communication • signal: stimulus from one organism to another • communication: reception of signals • may be visual, chemical, tactile, auditory, pheromones • communication/behaviors are closely related to an organisms lifestyle and environment (will determine the type of communication used)

  6. Innate behaviors • all individuals in a population exhibit the same behavior despite environment/lifestyle differences • automatic, fixed, “built in” response • triggered by a stimulus • example: migration, hibernation • Learned behaviors • modification of a behavior based on experiences • triggered by a stimulus but variable • social learning- learning through observing others • associative learning-associate one environmental feature with another • classical conditioning (stimulus associated with outcome—positive/negative reinforcement) • Pavlov’s dogs • operant conditioning (trial and error learning) • Push lever to get food (mice) • example: tool usage, hunting techniques https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA96Fba-WHk

  7. Homeostasis-maintaining internal balance • organisms behavior will change in an effort to maintain balance either internally or with the environment • negative feedback: reduces the stimulus (returning to a normal state) • temperature regulation, insulin/glucose balance in blood • positive feedback: amplifies the stimulus (takes farther from normal state) • labor/birth • carbon emissions and global warming

  8. Taxis: change in direction, move away from (negative) or toward (positive) a stimulus (directional) • Chemotaxis (chemical) • Phototaxis (light) • Kinesis: change in rate of movement in response to a stimulus (non-directional) • Like stimulus (move slowly) • Dislike stimulus—agitated (move quickly) • Social Behaviors: interactions between individuals (evolutionary adaptations) • language, dominance, altruism, cooperation, imprinting • Habituation: loss of response to stimulus

  9. Videos • Birds of Paradise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7QZnwKqopo • Honey Bees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nga4Z_HRUsU • Sage Grouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0M8pZnNlnI • Monkeys and tool usage (life series)

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