1. Warm Up #4
What is happening in this picture?

2. Animal Behavior and reproduction
Lesson 2: Interacting with Others

3. Essential Questions How do animals communicate?
How do animals interact in societies?

4. Communication
Animals communicate for protection, locating other members of their groups, warning others of danger, and finding mates
They use sounds, lights, chemicals, and body language
Communicate with those in same species and with different species

5. A line of ants activity
What is occurring in these pictures?

6. Communication - sound
Different sounds are used for different things – excitement, play, warning of danger, attract mates, etc. Write down when this plays what you think is the animal making that noise.

7. Communication - light
Bioluminescence – the ability of certain living things to give off light
Chemical reactions in the animal’s body produce the light
Why do you think most animals that use bioluminescence live in the ocean?

8. Communication - chemicals
Pheromone – a chemical that is produced by 1 animal and influences the behavior of another animal of the same species
Signals the presence of danger, food, mates, or even communicates the borders of a territory

9. Communication – body language
Communicates excitement, aggression, and other moods by facial expressions
Can make it easier for an animal to communicate with other members of its species or other species

10. Communication – body language
What moods do people communicate with body language?
How do people communicate with one another?

11. Warm up #5
What are some behaviors that you have seen that have occurred in an animal society?

12. Societies and behaviors
Society – a group of animals of the same species living and working together in an organized way
Sometimes highly structured with specific roles for members
Sometimes less highly structured with members doing multiple roles
Sometimes only come together for breeding or migration

13. Territorial behaviors
Territory – an area set up by animals for feeding, mating, and raising you
Identified by noises, physical changes, or marking the area
Aggression – a forceful behavior used to dominate or control another animal
When fight same species usually not trying to cause serious harm

14. courtship Specialized behaviors that help them find and attract a mate
Release pheromones to attract males
Using mating songs
Bring gifts of food to female
Build elaborate nests