1. Animal Behaviors
Innate behavior: behavior that you are born with, it is genetically built
Learned behavior: behavior acquired through experience

2. Innate Behavior
Fight or Flight response: mobilizes the body for greater activity
Courtship behavior: behavior that males and females carry out before mating
Ex. Courtship dances
Ex. spiders

3. Innate Behavior
Territoriality: defending a physical space against other members of a species
Dominance hierarchy: a social ranking within a group in which some are subordinate

4. Innate Behavior Migration: instinctive, seasonal movement of animals
Hibernation: body activities substantially decrease for a season
Estivation: state of reduced metabolism in intense heat
Ex. Frogs in mud

5. Innate behaviors: Taxis
Taxis: attraction towards a direction
Photo: towards light ex. Plants bend towards sunlight
Chemo: towards a chemical
Pheremones: chemicals or hormones secreted by an organism that is used for communication

6. Learned Behaviors Habituation: loss of sensitivity to stimuli
Imprinting: an animal forms an attachment to another object or organism
Ex. Conrad Lorenz and baby geese
Trial-and-error: trying several solutions to obtain a reward

7. Learned Behaviors
Classical Conditioning: learning by association …ex. Pavlov’s dog
Insight: animal uses previous experiences to respond to new situation

8. Social Behaviors: Think living/ getting a long in a group
Courtship Dances: set of display behaviors in which an animal attempts to attract a mate and exhibit their desire to mate