1. Animal Behavior

2. What’s going on? Sensation Perception Stimulus

3. Proximal/Proximate cause Ultimate cause?

5. eyeblink rooting Human reflexes

6. Innate/Instinctive behavior (Lorenz) sign stimulus = releaser Fixed Action Patterns eg: greylag goose egg retrieval releaser: egg or round object

7. Fixed action patterns eg: 3-spined stickleback aggression releaser: “fish body” with red streak

8. “cute” parent gulls release food

9. Learning habituation

10. Spatial learning eg: digger wasps

11. Konrad Lorenz & 1 of his families Imprinting

13. Associative learning Classical conditioning: Pavlov’s dogs

14. Associative learning Operant conditioning eg: Skinner’s rats (Wikipedia)

15. Operant conditioning

16. Imitation mockingbird (Wikipedia)

17. Cognition innovation Alex

18. Not good at innovation

19. Cognition: Self-aware

20. Play

21. Movement kinesis = change in activity level or turning radius taxis = oriented movement toward or away from a stimulus

22. Migration: piloting, orientation, navigation

23. Self care Foraging behavior Grooming

24. Self care self protection

25. Social behavior Communication smell visual

26. bees Social behavior Communication complex sound

27. Agonistic

28. dominance hierarchies territoriality

29. Courtship & mating individual display mutual display

30. Mating systems Promiscuous Monogamous Polygamous

31. “cheating” eg: sneaker males males female

32. Parental care

33. Altruism Kin selection inclusive fitness Reciprocal

34. Animal societies Insects: solitary, somewhat social, eusocial eg: termite castes

35. Animal societies Vertebrates: solitary, somewhat social, eusocial (very rare) eg: mole rats

36. Culture