Animal Behavior Wk2

Question 1

What is animal behaviour

Answer 1

Actions and reactions by animal-stimuli and situations in their environment. Includes reflex’s and instincts as well as complex social interactions and problem solving

Question 2

What is animal behaviour (broadly)

Answer 2

The way an animal acts

Question 3

Stimulus

Answer 3

Something that elicits a response

Question 4

Example of stimuli

Answer 4

Sight and colour
Touch and vibration
Smell and gravity
Taste
Sound
Heat/cold
Humidity, chemicals and pressure

Question 5

External stimulus

Answer 5

Something outside the animal. Example: presence of another animal

Question 6

Internal stimulus

Answer 6

Something inside the animal. Example: hunger, hormones

Question 7

Innate behaviours

Answer 7

Learned behaviours- through experience. Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, habituation, and imprinting

Question 8

Social behaviours

Answer 8

Atomistic behaviour related to conflict. Atruism, mating and courtship, parental care

Question 9

Communication behaviour

Answer 9

Vocalization, visual signals, chemical signals

Question 10

Natural Selection

Answer 10

An animal that successfully completes a helpful behaviour survives to pass on the behaviour to offspring

Question 11

Innate behaviour development

Answer 11

Appear in fully functional form when first performed. Web building, suckling

Question 12

FAS in cats

Answer 12

Tucked tail, crouched posture, hissing, dilated pupils, ears pinned down to the side

Question 13

Stressors

Answer 13

Noise
Odour
Pain
Disease processes
Unfamiliar people