Ethology/ ethologists

Question 1

Charles Darwin

Answer 1

Studied evolution through natural selection

Question 2

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Answer 2

Published paper ‘On the aims and methods of ethology’
Four interlinked approaches to animal behaviour - the ‘four questions’:
1-Function (or adaptation)
2-Evolution (or phylogeny)
3-Causation (or mechanism)
4-Development (or otogeny)

Question 3

Konrad Lorenz

Answer 3

Termed imprinting (precocial and altricial)
Observed goslings following the first thing they saw after hatching

Question 4

Ethology

Answer 4

is the scientific study of animal behaviour.

Question 5

Why study behaviour?

Answer 5

To learn more about the animal or species in their care
To keep the animal successfully in captivity and make their environment as natural as possible
To maintain wild populations and habitats
To keep the animal healthy and well fed

Question 6

Ethologists

Answer 6

Scientists that study behaviour

Question 7

Ethogram

Answer 7

An ethogram is a cataloguing technique used by researchers to describe how animals behave.

Question 8

State behaviours

Answer 8

are those that occur for some length of time, such as resting or feeding and many other maintenance-related behaviours.

Question 9

Event behaviour

Answer 9

are those that are brief and often sudden, such as aggression or breeding behaviour.