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7 herp behaviors
Resting
Movement
Water issues
Grooming
Thermoregulation
Food acquisition
Social reactions
Locomotion
Moving from place to place
Movment types (4)
Locomotion
Navigation
Migration
Habitat selection
Water issues (2)
Preventing water loss (waterproofing, activity patterns, habitat selection)
Rehydrating (collect water, drink from standing water, soak)
Grooming (3)
Ecdysis
Wiping
Cleaning (removal of debris)
Ecdysis
Shedding of outer layer skin. Comes off as a whole sheet or peices and is sometimes eaten.
Wiping
Frog species secrete wax onto their backs and spread it around
Thermoregulation (3)
Gain heat
Lose heat
Maintain
Food acquisition (4)
-Foraging (active & sit and wait)
-Prey capture (overpower, constrict, envenomate)
-Feeding (swallow whole or break up)
-Excretion
Reproduction (8)
Mate searching
Masturbation
Courtship
Male to male combat
Copulation
Nesting
Partutrition
Parental care
Social reactions (4)
Reproduction
Defense
Territorial advertising
Brumation
Breeding patterns
Associated (hormone production is high)
Dissaciated (gonadal activity is low)
Continual (hormone are high in males and dip in females)
Frog positions (6)
Axillary
Cephalic
Cloacal aposition
Inguinal
Glued
Straddle
Salamanders positions
Spermatophore “dances”
Conduction
Direct contact
Convection
Moving fluid
Radiation
Sun waves
Heat exchange routes (4)
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Evaporation
2 most important resources of all organisms
Time and energy because they are essential to survival and are non renewabke resources
First law of thermodynamics
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed
Second law of thermodynamics
Theres an inevitable degradation of useful energy into heat
Metabolism
Resting
Rates increase with temp and mass
8× higher in endotherms than ectos
95% of endotherms energy goes into metabolism
Growth
Addition of lean tissue
Storage
Brumation
Fat
Protein
Trachemys scripta
Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: chordata
Class: reptila
Order: testudines
Family: emydidae
