Behaviour

Question 1

Define natural behaviour

Answer 1

Behaviour that would occur in the wild and promotes biological functioning

Question 2

Define atypical behaviour

Answer 2

Behaviour that doesn’t have a clear function, could harm individual, could be caused but stress and anxiety

Question 3

What does foraging mean

Answer 3

Searching for, capturing and consuming food

Question 4

What does hunting mean

Answer 4

Predatory behaviour where one member of a species captures a member of the other species

Question 5

Define domestication

Answer 5

Humans have physiologically and behaviourally modified certain species by selectively breeding and habituating them

Question 6

Define captive

Answer 6

Wild animals kept in an enclosed area and dependent on human care to fulfill needs

Question 7

Define wild

Answer 7

Animals living in their natural habitat/range without human care

Question 8

Define obtrusive

Answer 8

Where the presence of the observer is known to animal

Question 9

Define inobtrusive

Answer 9

Use of remote technologies to monitor animals behaviour

Question 10

What’s state behaviour

Answer 10

Behaviour that happens continuously

Question 11

What’s event behaviour

Answer 11

A behaviour that happens for very short periods of time

Question 12

What’s focal continuous

Answer 12

Watching one animal constantly throughout the observational period

Question 13

What’s interval scan

Answer 13

Record what all members of group are doing at set moments of the observation period

Question 14

Who is Nicholas Tinbergen

Answer 14

A man who wanted to observe animals in their natural habitat

Question 15

What’s was tinbergens 4 questions

Answer 15

Survival value-what is it for
Ontogeny- how did it develop during the life time of the individual
Evolution- how did it evolve over the history of the species
Causation- how does it work

Question 16

What’s ontogeny

Answer 16

When in the lifetime of the individual a behaviour develops

Question 17

Define instinctive behaviour

Answer 17

A behaviour that is apparent from birth hasn’t been taught or learnt

Question 18

Define learned behaviour

Answer 18

A behaviour that is acquired over time / not apparent from birth

Question 19

Define trial and error learning

Answer 19

The animal encounters a problem so repeatedly trials solutions and when successful they repeat that behaviour, therefore learnt new behaviour

Question 20

Define observational behaviour

Answer 20

When an individual watches another and copies that behaviour

Question 21

Define social learning theory

Answer 21

The transfer of information from a more experienced individual to another naive one using direct interaction

Question 22

Define inter specific communication

Answer 22

Communication between individuals from different species

Question 23

Define intra specific communications

Answer 23

Communication between individuals of the same species

Question 24

What are fixed action patterns

Answer 24

Series of set actions that are triggered by key stimulus