1. Animal Behavior

2. Why do animals move? To stalk for food Fighting for territory
Climb for food
migration
mating

3. Catch Food
Owl swooping on a mouse

4. Catch Food
Bees fly to get nectar from a flower

5. Catch Food
Koala bears climb trees to get to eucalyptus leaves.

6. Catch Food
Jellyfish harpoon and lasso prey.

7. Catch food
Chimpanzee uses tools.

8. How to avoid being eaten?
At any given moment, an animal diner can become another animals dinner!
What does that mean?

9. Animals looking for food often have to think about other things besides which food looks or tastes the best.
They have to pass on a good meal if getting it is too dangerous.

10. Some animals hide out.
Rabbit freezes

11. Some Mimic Mimics a rock Caterpillar camouflaged as a twig!
Mimic the environment
Mimics the leaves

12. Some are in your face with warnings
Spines of a porcupine
Horns of a bull
These signal trouble to a potential predator!

13. Some use chemicals
Bombardier beetle
Skunk
Bees, ants, & wasps inject a powerful acid into their attackers.

14. Some have deadly toxins
Black-headed Pitohui bird
Poison dart frogs

15. Weird Science
The pitohui is one of the few poisonous birds. This is not the only unusual thing about this colorful, foul-smelling bird, however. The poison that the bird emits—homobatrachotoxin—is the same poison made by the New World strawberry dart-poison frog. How can two species that are so different produce the same poison? Scienctists are now exploring the mystery!!

16. Brain Food

17. Warning Colors
Many times poisonous animals use color to WARN predators of their poison.

18. Warning colors
Wasp
Predators will avoid animals with colors and patterns that they associate with pain, illness or an unpleasant experience.
Most common warning colors are vivid red, yellow, orange, and black with white.
Poison frog

19. Innate Behavior Doesn’t depend on learning.
Doesn’t depend on experiences.
They are influenced by our genes.
Our ability to walk
Puppies chew
Fly is born to fly.

20. Baby whales have the ability to swim.

21. Innate behavior can be modified by learning
Innate behavior can be modified by learning. Birds are born with the ability to sing, but it takes time for the skill to develop

22. Animal school Learning can modify an innate behavior
We inherit the ability to speak, but the language we speak is learned.
Many animals learn by watching their parents.