animal behavior

Question 1

what is behaviour?

Answer 1

The most observable response that an animal gives to a stimuli.

Normally involves movement.

Question 2

types of behaviour

Answer 2

social behaviours

foraging behaviours

Question 3

social behaviours

Answer 3

interaction (directed behaviors) to another individual

Question 4

foraging behaviours

Answer 4

set pattern that a species uses to locate and identify food.

Question 5

what is a stimuli?

Answer 5

Events that cause an organism to perform an activity or start a reaction.

Question 6

pure aspects of animal behaviour -

Answer 6

Evolutionary biology

Behavioral ecology

Cognition and consciousness

Human and animal comparisons

Question 7

recoding methods

Answer 7

Sampling -

Who to watch?

What to measure?

Recording -

How to record?

When to measure?

Question 8

sampling techniques

Answer 8

ad libitum
focal
scan
behavioural

Question 9

ad libitum

Answer 9

All behaviors are recorded.

Always best for designing an ethogram and working out behavioral complexity of the species that is going to be observed.

Question 10

focal

Answer 10

Focus on one individual.

Question 11

scan

Answer 11

Scan group at regular intervals.

Question 12

behavioural

Answer 12

Record occurrence of a particular behavior.

Question 13

ethogram

Answer 13

A list of all behaviors

Question 14

recording techniques

Answer 14

continuous
instantaneous
one-zero

Question 15

continuous technique

Answer 15

Exact record of behavior as records each occurrence.

Question 16

instantaneus technique

Answer 16

Divide sample period into short intervals and record behavior on the time point.

Question 17

one-zero technique

Answer 17

Record whether behavior has occurred in sample period.

Question 18

measures of behaviour

Answer 18

frequency
latency
duration
bout

Question 19

frequency measure

Answer 19

The number of occurrences of the behavior per unit of time.

Question 20

duration measure

Answer 20

The length of the time for which a single occurrence of the behavior lasts

Question 21

latency measure

Answer 21

The time from specific stimulus to the first occurrence of the behavior.

Question 22

bout measure

Answer 22

A short period of specific activity, normally intense, that can be timed. Will have a specific start and end point and a latency between bouts is required for measurement.