1. Animal Behavior

2. Stimulus & Response Stimulus: signal Response: reaction to a stimulus
Light, sound, odor, & heat
Rely on senses
Response: reaction to a stimulus
Involves: sense organs, nervous system, & muscles
see a snake  run away
see a pretty/handsome girl/guy  smile
hear alarm clock  place head under pillow

3. Behavior & Evolution Behavior: reaction to a change
Certain behavior can help an individual survive and reproduce

4. Innate Behavior Preformed correctly first time
Suckling of a newborn mammal
Spiders weaving webs

5. Learned Behavior Habituation: stop response to repetitive stimulus
Train in the middle of the night
Sleeping through an alarm clock
Classical Conditioning: mental connection between reward and stimulus
Pavlov’s Dog

6. Learned Behavior Operant Conditioning: trial and error
Skinner’s box
Puzzles
Insight Learning: apply something already learned to a new situation

7. Instinct and Learning Combined
Imprinting: based on early experience; cannot be changed
1st object a duck sees when it’s born is it ‘mother’
A familiar smell

8. Behavioral Cycles Response to periodic environmental changes
Migration: move from one place to another
Hibernation & Estivation
Circadian Rhythm: daily patterns; sleep

9. Courtship Strategy to identify healthy mates
Send out stimuli: sounds visual displays, or chemicals to attract a mate

10. Social Behavior Society: related animals that interact & work together
Increase reproductive success
Jane Goodall: Animal Behavior
Observed Chimpanzees

11. Competition and Aggression
Prevent others from using limited resources
Aggression: threatening behavior used to gain control over another
Territory: area occupied by animal(s)
Pecking order

12. Communication Passing information Visual: movement & color
Chemical signals: pheromones

13. Communication
Sound: crickets, dolphins
Language: humans only
Touch