Conservation and Animal Behaviour and Welfare Flashcards
What does ‘in situ’ mean
In the natural habitat
What does ‘ex situ’ mean
animal in captivity
What is adaptive breeding?
Rescuing animals and hope one day they’ll go back to their natural habitat
What is conservation breeding?
Put them in captivity to breed and let them out again
Example of an animal that needed a captive breeding programme because it was extinct in the wild
Socorro dove
Example of highly selective breeding
Canna mouse sniff each other with tubes and build a barrier towards the partner they want
What animal shows homosexual behaviour?
Male guppies because there is an absence of female conspecifics so they do their courtship displays to each other.
Some species saved by conservation and put back into the wild
Hawaiian geese,
Mountain chicken frog,
White rhino,
Arabian oryx
What is a positive effective state?
Keeping animals suited and adapted to their environment
What is animal welfare?
The state of an individual as it attempts to cope with its environment (Broom, 1988)
How do animals show they are not coping?
Self-directed behaviours such as weaving and pulling out feathers.
Constant fight or flight response.
Changes in endocrine system
Example of a self-directed behaviour
Parrots pull out their feathres because they over groom themselves
For good welfare, animals need to be…
autonomous
What is an appetitive behaviour?
the doing is more important than the end result
What is a consummatory behaviour?
animal is reaching for a particular goal
What does Melfi’s 2009 evidence-based animal management show?
How to give animals good welfare.
How can animals be given good welfare?
Captive provision.
Husbandry
Enclosure design
What is reference testing?
a way of improving management to get better quality welfare
What is behavioural husbandry?
provides keepers with a dynamic new set of tools to help promote the well-being of animals in their care. … For example, animals have learned to get on scales to be weighed
Research shows that female Chacma baboon’s young live longer if…
She has more friends. She will also have a better immune system
What is the grandparenting affect?
Investing in your genes through multi-levels. This increases chances of your genes survivng.
Example of a grandparenting animal
Warbler birds
What did Foster et al find about whales?
Males whales die soon after their mother does showing they have control of social position.
What is cuckoldry
In evolutionary biology, the term is applied to male animals who are unwittingly investing parental effort in offspring that are not genetically their own.
Kin selection is shown in which rodent?
Ground squirrels as males do not live near genetic relatives but females do
What is captive breeding?
For endangered animals to help them reproduce and not be extinct
involves “the ark paradigm”.
What does conservation breeding involve?
involve integration with in situ projects.
