Stimulus = anything that elicits a response.

1. Goal 4.05: Animal Behavior http://www.simpletruths.tv/store/movies.php?movie=gqgl Stimulus = anything that elicits a response. Response = behavior resulting from exposure to a stimulus. z.about.com www.betaversion.org img2.timeinc.net bottledsky.com www.familyhealthnetwork.com 3.bp.blogspot.com hiphappy.files.wordpress.com Stimulus Response http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=5A73904F-063E-4264-BA0F-67E286528E90&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

2. Innate (instinctive) Behavior = born with it/inherited visionsofspring.org INSTINCT vs. LEARNED http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=24A908BF-B21C-432C-8647-C3040AFA498F&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

3. Instinct = behaviors that an organism is born knowing. Innate = referring to instinctive behaviors. www.touchstonefarm.org www.zimfamilycockers.com www.biocrawler.com www.ruralni.gov.uk Animal Instincts http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=3B2D0821-9886-4BA6-9C40-26DFB11AB1B3&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

4. Learned Behavior = resulting from experience Habituation: animals stops responding to a stimulus to which it repeatedly exposed. Classical Conditioning: animal makes a mental connection between a stimulus and reward/punishment. (Pavlov’s Dog Experiments) Operant Conditioning: (trial and error) animal learns to repeat behaviors that result in rewards and avoid behaviors that result in punishment. Learned Behaviors http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/11476-animal-intelligence-learned-response-video.htm

5. Learned Behavior = resulting from experience Insight Learning: animal applies what it has already learned to a new situation.

6. Social Behavior = behavior resulting from interactions with others. Horse dominance http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/22314-adapting-to-deserts-the-dominant-male-kathys-herd-video.htm

7. Imprinting = learning based on early experience Usually learned immediately or very soon following birth. Some newborn animals will imprint on the first thing they see move following birth. Others imprint on a location. Example: Spawning salmon return to their hatching grounds to breed. kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca terrallectualism.files.wordpress.com www.sundancestablesfl.com www.psywww.com naturescrusaders.files.wordpress.com www.awakeningpotentials.com

8. Circadian Rhythm = cycle that happens daily www.dietsinreview.com www.qfac.com www.moonbattery.com

9. neatorama.cachefly.net Migration = movement from one location to another based on seasonal changes Sooty Shearwater – longest migration Sea Turtle migration routes Snow goose migration www.ontfin.com ih1.redbubble.net www.qc.ec.gc.ca www.wildlifeextra.com www.bahiamap.com africansafaris.co.ke

10. Estivation vs. Hibernation Hibernation = sleeping during winter months ladybugs squirrels hedgehogs bears bats www.pwcs.edu ladybuglady.com www.bear.org www.daviddarling.info jerseyhedgehogs.co.uk

11. Estivation vs. Hibernation Estivation = sleeping during summer months as a survival mechanism against environmental events such as heat, drought, etc. Very common in desert animals. Beaded lizard Spade foot toad Jersey tiger moths snails z.about.com open.live.bbc.co.uk http-server.carleton.ca absoluteastronomy.com