Animal Behavior

 Behavior: anything an animal does in response to a stimulus in its environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 rathabituation and the rat

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

Learned Behavior  Trial and Error  Learning where animal is rewarded for a particular response

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

 Pavlov’s dogs

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

Communication  Exchange of information that results in a change in behavior  Sounds, body movements, facial expressions, chemicals bees-navigation