2 Flashcards
Tibetgen tested for what on what spp
Moved what cm
Spacial memory using markers (the cones)
Beewolves
SE 20cm
Observing behaviour -ethogram usually (3)
Categorical
Specific decription
Mutually exclusive
Precise objective results that are replicable
Hypothetic deductive approach experimental design
Prelim observation to make qu Hypothesis and testable predictions Choose and define behavioural measures Design experiment -treatments Pilot study to practice and select recording methods Collect data Analyse and accept or reject hupothesis
Stereotypic example
Regurgitation
Hair plucking
Ie in sea world
Orca raking and harming birds
States and events
Events are short interested in time happening is singing
State long periods
Context and qu specific difficult to define
Measure types of time of behaviour 4
Latency
Freq or rate -times it occurs in period
Duration or of single occurrence or can calculate total amount for proportion
Intensity is aggression ranked scale
Other details to record
Participants in behaviour
Spatial info
Transitions between states
Example of recorded A
Verveet monkey Time budget Instantaneous group scan -statues Note all instance of alar call (évent) (Behavioural sampling)
Example real life B
URaine colobus monkey
Continuous focal on make for 15 mins
Scan group every 20 mins for 1 or 2 behaviours and nearest neighbour
Sampling types
Ad libitun
Focal
Scan
Behaviour
Recording types
Continuous
1/0
Instantaneous
Comparison of what
160min observation
CR IS and 1/0 every ten mins
CR lots of info
Is good and corresponds well
1/0 overestimated percentage time but underestimated bouts
Consider (6)
Observer timing location Observer effects Observer tiredness Observer reliability Ethics Teleology / anthropomorphism
