1. Animal Behavior

2. Animal Behavior
Behavior: anything an animal does in response to a stimulus in its environment

3. 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

4. Instinctive Behaviors Sarus Crane planet earth birds of paradise
Courtship- behaviors males and females carry out before mating
Discourages interbreeding between wrong species
Sounds, visual displays, dances, chemical signals(pheromones)

5. Territoriality - defense of a physical space, territory
Songs, calls, intimidation, marking territory,
attack,
chase
bashing-bison.

6. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors
Circadian rhythm – 24 hour cycle of behavior
diurnal leaf movement
Sleep patterns

7. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors
Migration- seasonal or periodic movement
-wildebeest-migration
Monarchs

8. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors
Hibernation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through cold winter

9. Cycles of Instinctive Behaviors
Estivation- state of reduced metabolism as animals sleep through hot summer

10. 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 rat

11. Learned Behavior Imprinting
Duck loves Dog
Imprinting
Partially instinct
Attachment to an object during a certain time in an animals life

12. Learned Behavior Trial and Error
Learning where animal is rewarded for a particular response

13. Learned Behavior Conditioning
Learning in which an animal connects a stimulus with a certain behavior
Learning by association
Pavlov’s dogs
conditioning and pavlov

14. Pavlov’s dogs

15. Learned Behavior Insight
Animal uses its experience to respond to something new
Problem solving
the box and the banana

16. Communication
Exchange of information that results in a change in behavior
Sounds, body movements, facial expressions, chemicals
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