2.1.5 measuring and recording animal behaviour

Question 1

what are the different measurements that can be used to quantify animal behaviour

Answer 1

latency
frequency
duration

Question 2

what is latency

Answer 2

the time between the stimulus occurring and the response behaviour

Question 3

what is frequency

Answer 3

the number of times a behaviour occurs within the observation period

Question 4

what is duration

Answer 4

the length of time each behaviour occurs during the observation period

Question 5

what allows the construction of time budgets

Answer 5

an ethogram of the behaviours shown by a species in a wild context

Question 6

what is an ethogram

Answer 6

these list species specific behaviours to be observed and recorded in the study

Question 7

how can ethogram allow the proportion of time spent on each behaviour to be calculated in the time budget

Answer 7

by recording the duration of each of the behaviours together with the total time of observation

Question 8

why must anthropomorphism be avoided when analysing behaviour

Answer 8

can lead to invalid conclusions