Animal Behavior

What’s going on? Sensation Perception Stimulus

Proximal/Proximate cause Ultimate cause?

eyeblink rooting Human reflexes

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

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

“cute” parent gulls release food

Learning habituation

Spatial learning eg: digger wasps

Konrad Lorenz & 1 of his families Imprinting

Associative learning Classical conditioning: Pavlov’s dogs

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

Operant conditioning

Imitation mockingbird (Wikipedia)

Cognition innovation Alex

Not good at innovation

Cognition: Self-aware

Play

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

Migration: piloting, orientation, navigation

Self care Foraging behavior Grooming

Self care self protection

Social behavior Communication smell visual

bees Social behavior Communication complex sound

Agonistic

dominance hierarchies territoriality

Courtship & mating individual display mutual display

Mating systems Promiscuous Monogamous Polygamous

“cheating” eg: sneaker males males female

Parental care

Altruism Kin selection inclusive fitness Reciprocal

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

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

Culture