1. Warm Up #1
What is a behavior?

2. Animal Behavior and reproduction
Lesson 1: Types of Behavior

3. Essential Questions
How do behaviors help animals maintain homeostasis?
How are animal behaviors classified?

4. What is a behavior
Behavior – the way an organism reacts to other organisms or to its environment (stimulus)
Ex: dog sniffing, flock of birds flying together
BrainPop - Behavior
Stimulus – a change in an organism’s environment that causes a response
Ex: weather getting warmer, hunger, fight-or-flight response
Which of the following are external stimuli and which are internal stimuli: scents, hunger, illness, heat, thirst

5. Innate behaviors
Innate behavior – a behavior that is inherited rather than learned; happens automatically or naturally
Ex: tad poles hatch and swim away from danger and find food
Reflexes – automatic response that does not involve a message from the brain
Instincts – a complex pattern of innate behavior; another name
Ex: finding food, running away from danger, grooming, spiders spinning webs
What is the difference between reflexes and instincts?

6. Innate behaviors
Migration – instinctive, seasonal movement of animals from one place to another
Ex: birds flying south due to cold weather and lack of food
BrainPOP - Migration
Hibernation – a response in which an animal’s body temperature, activity, heart rate, and breathing rate decrease during periods of cold weather
Ex: bears during the winter time
BrainPOP - Hibernation

7. Warm up #2
What is the difference between reflexes and instincts?

8. Learned behaviors
Learned Behavior – occurs only after experience or practice
Imprinting – when an animal forms an attachment to an organism or place within a specific time period after birth or hatching
Trial and Error – a child learning to button a shirt
Conditioning – modified so that a response to one stimulus becomes associated with a different stimulus; involves a reward or punishment
How does conditioning benefit an animal?

9. Learned behaviors
Cognitive Behavior – thinking, reasoning, and solving problems
Ex: animals using tools to get food
Habituation – learning to get used to something after being exposed to it for a while
Observational learning – learning by watching and copying the behavior or someone else