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Animal Behavior
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Behavior: anything an animal does in response to a stimulus in its environment
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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
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Instinctive Behaviors Sarus Crane planet earth birds of paradise Sarus Craneplanet earth birds of paradise Courtship- behaviors males and females carry out before mating Discourages interbreeding between wrong species Sounds, visual displays, dances, chemical signals birds of paradise
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Territoriality bashing-bison. - defense of a physical space, territory Songs, calls, intimidation, marking territory, attack, chase
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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors Circadian rhythm – 24 hour cycle of behavior diurnal leaf movement Sleep patterns
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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors Migration- seasonal or periodic movement -wildebeest-migration Monarchs
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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors Hibernation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through cold winter
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Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors Estivation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through hot summer
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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 rathabituation and the rat
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Learned Behavior Imprinting Partially instinct Attachment to an object during a certain time in an animals life Duck loves Dog
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Learned Behavior Trial and Error Learning where animal is rewarded for a particular response
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Learned Behavior Conditioning Learning in which an animal connects a stimulus with a certain behavior Learning by association Pavlov’s dogs conditioning and pavlov conditioning and pavlov
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Pavlov’s dogs
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Learned Behavior Insight Animal uses its experience to respond to something new Problem solving the box and the banana
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Communication Exchange of information that results in a change in behavior Sounds, body movements, facial expressions, chemicals bees-navigation
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