Definitions

Question 1

animal behaviour

Answer 1

how an animals reacts to a stimuli in the environment of physiological change

Question 2

social behaviour

Answer 2

forming a co-operative and interdependent relationships

Question 3

ethology

Answer 3

the scientific and objective study if animal behaviour, its causation and function, especially under natural conditions

Question 4

applied ethology

Answer 4

-behaviour of domestic animals
-includes farm animals, but also zoo animals, pets, etc

Question 5

nikolaas tinbergen findings

Answer 5

-4 questions that help to define
-function, development, evolution, mechanism

Question 6

konrad lorenz finding

Answer 6

geese and imprinting

Question 7

karl von frisch findings

Answer 7

-bees and the wagle dance
-tells them distance + direction of nectar

Question 8

“animal machines” book

Answer 8

-published in 1960s
-ruth harrison
-focuses on: gestation crates for sows, veal crates in calves
-conventional cages in layers
-changes now are because of this

Question 9

what is animal behaviour

Answer 9

-how an animal reacts to stimuli in the environment

Question 10

is behaviour a simple science

Answer 10

-no many different factors effect this
-genetics
-age
-species
-individual
-between species
-within a species
-inturn impact fitness or ability to survive

Question 11

domestic animals compared to wild counterparts

Answer 11

behaviour its self remains the same but timing will change

Question 12

why is animal ethology/behaviour different from most classical sciences

Answer 12

cannot be explained only by the simplest mechanism involved

Question 13

why is animal ethology/behaviour multidisciplinary

Answer 13

-not only one component
-includes phycology, physiology, neuroscience, evolution and developmental biology, etc