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    The document discusses key concepts in animal behavior including innate versus learned behaviors, behavioral ecology, questions that can be asked about animal behavior, and examples of innate behaviors like imprinting, migration, and fixed action patterns. It also covers learned behaviors through associative learning, operant conditioning, and problem solving. Finally, it examines social behaviors such as communication through language and scent, agonistic behaviors, dominance hierarchies, cooperation, and altruism which can increase an animal's Darwinian fitness.

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    The document discusses key concepts in animal behavior including innate versus learned behaviors, behavioral ecology, questions that can be asked about animal behavior, and examples of innate behaviors like imprinting, migration, and fixed action patterns. It also covers learned behaviors through associative learning, operant conditioning, and problem solving. Finally, it examines social behaviors such as communication through language and scent, agonistic behaviors, dominance hierarchies, cooperation, and altruism which can increase an animal's Darwinian fitness.

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    Animal Behavial

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    Animal Behavior Notes!

    Behavior
    • What an animal does &
    How an animal does it!
    • Think of all of the
    behaviors of your pet...or
    a friends’ pet. List them
    and classify them as
    either being genetically
    “innate” or learned.
    Behavioral Ecology
    • Behavioral Ecology emphasizes
    evolutionary hypothesis.
    • Based on the fact that animals will act in a
    way that will increase their Darwinian
    fitness. What does “fitness” refer to in
    Darwinian terms?
    What questions can we ask?
    • Proximate causes
    – immediate stimulus & mechanism
    – “how” & “what” questions
    male songbird
    • Ultimate causes  what triggers singing?
     how does he sing?
    – evolutionary significance  why does he sing?
    – how does behavior
    contribute to survival
    & reproduction
    • adaptive value
    – “why” questions

    Courtship behavior in cranes


     how does daylength influence breeding?
     what,…how… & why questions
     why do cranes breed in spring?
    P & E Practice
    • Human Sweet-tooth
    • Sonar Clicks in Bats
    ETHOLOGY
    Pioneers in the Study of An. Behavior
    Karl von Frisch Niko Tinbergen Konrad Lorenz
    Two Classifications of Behavior –
    Who cares???
    • ADAPTIVE ADVANTAGE
    1. innate behaviors
    • automatic, fixed, “built-in”, no “learning curve”
    • despite different environments,
    all individuals exhibit the behavior
    • ex. early survival, reproduction, kinesis, taxis
    2. learned behaviors
    • modified by experience
    • variable, changeable
    • flexible with a complex & changing environment
    Innate behaviors
    • Fixed action patterns (FAP)
    – sequence of behaviors
    essentially unchangeable
    & usually conducted to completion
    once started
    – sign stimulus
    • the releaser that triggers a FAP
    Innate: Fixed Action Patterns
    (FAP)
    Digger wasp

    egg rolling in geese

    Do humans exhibit Fixed Action Patterns?


    Innate: Directed movements
    Innate: Migration
    Innate & Learned Behavior: Imprinting

    Who???
    I & L: Imprinting
    CRITICAL PERIOD
    Learned Behavior
    • Associative learning
    – learning to associate
    a stimulus with a consequence
    Operant Conditioning
    Classical Conditioning
    Learning: Habituation
    Learning: Problem-solving
    • Do other animals reason?

    crow
    Social Behavior
    • Communication/Language
    • Agonistic Behaviors
    • Dominance Hierarchy
    • Cooperation
    • Altruistic Behavior
    a. Language
    Communication by song
    Communication by scent
    Spider using moth sex
    pheromones, as allomones,
    to lure its prey

    Female mosquito use CO2


    concentrations to locate victims
    b. Agonistic behaviors

    Lizard Behavior
    c. Dominance hierarchy
    d. Cooperation
    e. Altruistic Behavior
    kin selection
    • increasing survival of close relatives passes
    these genes on to the next generation

    How can this be of adaptive value? Warning Calls

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