Cyclic Activity & Systems Of Behavior Flashcards
Is a field of science that examines periodic phenomena in living organisms and their adaptation to solar and lunar rhythms
Chronobiology
Biologic rhythms (3)
Diurnal
Natural
Crepuscular
Rhythms with different duration (6)
Circadian
High frequency
Ultradian
Circatrigentian
Annual rhythm
Infradian
“Time giver”
Zeitgebers
Factors that sets the rhythm
Zeitgebers
Examples of zeitgebers
Light
Barometric pressure
Drugs
Feeding
Phases of behavior (3)
Appetitive
Consummatory
Refractory
Animals of a species tend to do the same thing at the same time
Allelomimetic behavior
“Copy cat” behavior
Allelomimetic behavior
Purpose of ingestive behavior:
Energy attainment
Allelomimetic
Attention seeking
Factors affecting eating behavior (5)
Taste
Temperature
Social facilitation
GIT factors
Estrogen level
Animal with the poorest sense of taste
Chicken
Number of taste buds in chicken
24
Number of taste buds in cat
473
Factors responsible for sexual behavior (7)
- Genetically determined sex
- Perinatal organizational action of hormones
- Adult activational action of hormone and anatomical sites
- Past social and sexual experience
- Attractiveness of potential mate
- External environment
- Central nervous system
Infertile cow with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries
Freemartin cow
Abolishes estrous behavior in females and sexual behavior in males
Ovariectomy and castration
The more effective way in eliminating sexual behavior
Prepubertal castration
Any social behavior that involves fighting, thus it is a contest involving threats
Agonistic behavior
Care-giving
Epimeletic
Care-seeking
Et-epimeletic
Elimination of feces and urine, and the behaviors associated with elimination
Eliminative behavior
Rhythm w/ a duration of less than 30 minutes
High frequency
Rhythm w/ a duration more frequent than 24 hr
Ultradian
Rhythm with duration less frequent than 24 hr
Infradian
Rhythm w/a duration of 30 days
Circatrigentian
4 main and most frequent studied animal behavior
Imprinting
Imitation
Instinct
Conditioning
Difference between proceptive and receptive behavior
Proceptive - female initiates the mating
Receptive - readiness of female animal in sexual behavior
