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Instinctive and Learned Behaviors in Animal Behavior Studies

Explore the fascinating world of animal behavior, from innate behaviors like reflexes and instincts to learned behaviors such as habituation and conditioning. Discover the intricate patterns of courtship rituals, territoriality, and migration, as well as the adaptive strategies of hibernation and estivation. See how animals communicate through various signals and exchanges of information. Witness the wonders of nature through the lens of animal behavior studies.

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Instinctive and Learned Behaviors in Animal Behavior Studies

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  1. Animal Behavior

  2. Animal Behavior • Behavior: anything an animal does in response to a stimulus in its environment

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Territoriality - defense of a physical space, territory • Songs, calls, intimidation, marking territory, attack, chase bashing-bison.

  6. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Circadian rhythm – 24 hour cycle of behavior • diurnal leaf movement • Sleep patterns

  7. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Migration- seasonal or periodic movement -wildebeest-migration Monarchs

  8. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Hibernation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through cold winter

  9. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors • Estivation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through hot summer

  10. 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

  11. Learned Behavior Duck loves Dog • Imprinting • Partially instinct • Attachment to an object during a certain time in an animals life

  12. Learned Behavior • Trial and Error • Learning where animal is rewarded for a particular response

  13. Learned Behavior • Conditioning • Learning in which an animal connects a stimulus with a certain behavior • Learning by association • Pavlov’s dogs • conditioning and pavlov

  14. Pavlov’s dogs

  15. Learned Behavior • Insight • Animal uses its experience to respond to something new • Problem solving the box and the banana

  16. Communication • Exchange of information that results in a change in behavior • Sounds, body movements, facial expressions, chemicals bees-navigation

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