Animal behaviour Flashcards
what is inherited behaviour?
innate, instinct, important for survival of species
what is acquired behaviour?
adopt useful method of survival within the enviorment
what are the two types of inherited behaviour?
reproductive and maintenence
behaviour of maintenence is used for
constant behavioural patterns to keep themselves alive
reproductive behaviour is used for
needed to maintain animal species
what is ingestive behaviour?
it is eating, drinking. this is critical to animal reproduction
when horses excretiate they
turn around and sniff the point
A dog
uses one leg
what is self grooming?
self grooming is cleaning the body of parasites, they do this by licking areas where they can touch
what is mutual grooming?
one animal looking after another one by removing parasites that they cant reach themselves
what is a stimulus
a change in the enviourment, examples of this are wind, tempreture, light, water
what is behaviour?
an organisms response to a change in the enviorment
is the knee jerk reflex a innnate or learned
innate for stability and to walk
is a chimp using tools innate or learned
learned, to get more food
is movement of woodlice inate or learned
innate, its used from survival of predators and not drying out
is a giant octopus response to a predator inate or learned
innate, it is used to hide from predators
is a earthworms response to a preadator innate or learned
innate, it is used for survival
is a venus fly trap innate or learned
innate because of survival
is walking innate or learned
learned because of survival
is talking innate or learned
learned for communication
is birds not eating orange butterflies innate or learned
learned to avoid unpleasant tastes
is rats operating levers innate or learned
learned to get a reward
is dogs sitting on command innate or learned
learned to get food as a treat
is swallowing food conditioned or innate
innate
what are the advantages or innate behaviour
it normally increases chances of survival
what is a behaviour
it is an instinct that the animal does not know how to do
what is classical conditioning
when to stimuli are linked together to create a new learned behaviour
what is operant conditioning
trial and error which are accosiated with food and sanctions
what is habituation
a learned behaviour when the animal stops its response, the advantages are that it doesent waste energy and the disadvantage is if it becomes habituated it could be in danger
what is social behaviour
social behaviour is heirarchy, meaning when certain individuals play higher roles than others according to relative status or authority
habituation in snails
when a snail is touched between their eyestalks they will retreat into their shells, when you keep on doing this they will become habituated and stop retreating back into their shells. the response is it hiding in its shells and the stimulus is the person touching in between the eye stalks
animal behaviour
most animals have a alpha male or female, in order to sustain this everyone must be happy with the role that they are playing. to do this they need to be able to communicate
social behaviour
this is when organisms living together have defined roles
what are the advantages of social behaviour
increases survival rates, protection security and comunication
