Final- Past midterm Two Flashcards
Nocturnal Birds (3)
- Owls
- Sea Birds
- Kiwi
Owls vision (2)
- Great night vision
- Other senses not great
Owl Families (2)
Tytonidae: Barn Owls
Strigidae: Typical Owls
French take on owls (2)
Buboninae: Ear tufts
Striginae: No tufts
Same as families really
Owl Characteristics (11)
- Biparental care (incubation by females, feed by both)
- Altricial species
- Monogamous
- Sexual dimorphism (females larger)
- Allopreening is common (groom eachother)
- Very vocal (can duet: male-male competition, male-female: sexual)
- Courtship is common (feed female, impress)
- Do not build nests (tress burrows, burrow)
- head bob a lot (how they judge distance)
- Regurgitate undigested food (pellets)
- Can camouflage really well (concealing postures)
Largest Owls (2)
- Snowy Owls
- Great Horned Owl
Two very similar looking owls (2)
Northern Hawk Owl
Barred Owl
Northern Hawk Owl (2)
- Long tail
- In North Quebec mostly
Barred Owl
His favourite
- In HRM
- Dark eyes
Limited vocalization owls (2)
Long-Eared Owl
Short-Eared Owl
Long-Eared Owl
- Very thin
Small Owls (2)
- Boreal Owl
- Northern Saw-Whet Owl
Personality in animals:
- More social the species more variation in behaviour/ personality
Two dimensions of psychology and Neuroscience (2+ def’n)
Temperament: Fixed, innate, genetic, inherited, biological dimension of personality
(inherited personality)
-In animals only
Character: dimension of personality modulated by learning, experience, environment
- Not in animals (debatably)
Dugatkins definition (2)
Focus on individual strategies
- at least the impact of individual difference on behavioural strategies
Historical trends on personality in animals (3)
- Hints at intelligent, emotions
- Took awhile to catch on
- Started by Biologists
Pavlov and personality in dogs (2)
- Discovered that in his conditioning not all dogs were not conditioning the same way
- Came up with typologies
Pavlovs typology (7)
Weak nervous system (Melancholic - depressed, sad dogs)
Strong nervous system : Two subtypes
- Balanced (mobile- sanguine (easy to deal with, bold, etc..) and Slow- phlegmatic (lazy per-say) )
- Unbalanced (choleric) - angry
Balanced: Active
Unbalance: Reactive
Personality psychologists (2)
Eysenck
Gray
Reale personality factors (5)
Reactivity:
- Shyness/boldness: reaction to risky situations
- Exploration(approach)/ avoidance: Response to novel situations
- Activity (based on situation)
- Aggressiveness
- Sociability
Much overlap
Gosling’s personality traits (5 + their def’n)
Based on Hyenas
- Assertiveness : Context-dependent confidence (how they approach a situation and show confidence)
- Excitability: How quickly they get excited (energy…)
- Agreeableness: (Human directed), if they will seek human interaction
- Sociability: Many connections to other Hyena vs. few relationships
- Curiosity: To novel situations
Personality and Sociality: Canids studied by Michael Fox (4)
- Can hypothesize aggression based on complexity of sociality
- Monomorphic: low player, aggression among siblings (fox-like canids)
- Oligomorphic: Some play, less aggression towards siblings (Coyotes)
- Polymorphic: Large amounts of play, limited aggression towards siblings (Wolves)
Is personality general traits or is it situational (1)
- Situational specificity theory: personality is not fixed, based on situations
Shy- Bold Continuum (2)
- High predictability by Kagan studies
- If as a child, likely to stay as an adult
Boldness (6)
risk-taking, Sensation seeking, Highly sociable, Leader, Dominance, initiative
Shyness (5)
Tame behaviour, less social, conform, sub ordinance, follow
Fish personality (3)
- Fish catching techniques will catch you fish with different personalities
- With seine net you catch: shy fish
- With minnow traps you catch: bold fish (curiosity?)
Fast- Slow Birds (4)
Fast Birds:
- Aggressive
- Approach novel objects
- Form the foraging patterns
Slow Birds:
- Non aggressive
- Follow others
- Avoid novel objects
- Ie. Opposite
Application for personality in Conservation Biology (3)
Reintroduction programs:
- Release the bold ones first
- Shy ones after the bold ones colonize
Testing personality (4)
Many assumptions
- Need consistency (not everyday the same but need some) - contextual variations (but still need consistency in the contextual variations)
- Repeatability (will occur again in the same context again)
- Heritability of temperament (lab: easily tested with breeding)
(field: use of genealogies to see their parents, etc.. personality)
Mirror image test (4)
- See how they react
- Some aggressive
- Some playful
- Some fearful
- Aggressive, sociability approach
- Shyness-Boldness approach
Keepers Survey (2)
Traits on personality linked to breeding success
- Assertiveness, boldness, etc.. can determine chance of mating
think hierarchies and personality
Behavioural Syndromes (4)
- Individual behaves in a consistent way through time and across contexts
- Same as personality or temperament
Made by biologists
It is context-independent personality
Behavioural type (3)
- Configuration of behaviours that an individual would express
- Property of the individual
- A trait for personality really
Studying Behavioural Syndromes (4)
- Puzzling behaviour approach
- Candidate behaviour approach
- Proximate approach
- Ecological approach
Puzzling Behaviour Approach (3)
Interest based on interesting behaviour
- Anecdotes collected
- Put all of the ‘data points’ to see if there is a pattern or not
Candidate Behaviour Approach (2)
- Compare behaviour between species
- How two species have the same behaviour
Proximate Approach (2)
- Genes, hormones, etc..
- How the genetics of an organism can shape their personality
Ecological Approach (2)
- How environment sets behaviour
- How environment can set a context
Candidate behaviour approach: Examples of domain- specific individuals differences (5)
- Shy-Bold Axis: leader or non-leader personalities
- Proactive- Reactive axis: How they react to stuff
- Aggressiveness: differentiate individuals in a group
- Neophobia: Hate new things
- Exploratory Behaviour: curious, or sensation seeking
Fitness consequences to personality (3)
- Trade-off based on context (bold can be helpful, but dangerous; contextual)
- Bolder males have increased reproductive success (always a cost)
- Aggressive or bold = survive better when food is low
Play (2)
- Few adaptive or functional theories
- No obvious function in behaviour
Play: Areas that look at it (2)
- Developmental ethology
- Developmental animal Psychology
Researchers involved in Play (7)
Tim Caro (cheetahs) first Marc Bekoff (canids) Judy Loeven (canids) Bernd Heinrich (Ravens) Pellis (rats) Biben/ Altmann (primates) Panksepp/ Burghardt: Behavioural neuroscience of play (development of brain)
Play in Rats and Mice (2)
- Rats play, rats do not
- Rats can be tickled
Play: Brain size
- bigger brain = more play
Play definition
Ethology: Motor patterns/ action sequences
Play dimensions
Cognitive (strategy, exploration)
Conative (stress reduction)
Affective (fun)
Elephant Nose Fish (6)
- Produce weak electric fields
- Largest brain of all vertebrates (based on body size)
- Huge Cerebellum (covers the brain);
- Likely used for communication (some social- cognitive control)
- Make clicks to communicate
- Conduct dyadic play
Cerebellum (6)
- Control fine motor movements
- Helps control Balance
- Birds that chase prey in forest (3D environ) have big
- Involved in language and speech
- Involved in learning
- Involved in innate tasks
Play in mammals (2)
- Limited play as adults (basically non)
- Likely developmental
Types of play (4)
- Object play (not social)
- Social Play (with others)
- Locomotor play
- inter-specific play
Object Play (2)
- Instrumental
- ## Alone with an object
Social play (5)
- with others
- Most often young
Reasons:
- Fitting in a hierarchy (learning physical ability)
- Learning about others
- Developing cognitive skills (hunting skills, allocare, etc…)
- Form alliances / enemies
Locomotor play (5)
- Dependent on species
- Sudden craziness really (think goats going nuts randomly)
Reason:
- Side effect of development (may be to test physical abilities…)
- Developing motor skills
- In the Cerebellum
Inter-specific Play (4)
- Different category
- contextual
- Play is different with every species
- The scripts can be very different
Cerebellar synaptogenesis and play (3)
- Cerebellum synapses linked to play
- Synapses in cerebellum develop as they play
- More play = more cerebellum synapses development
Signalling intention to play (3)
- Rough-and-tumble play is similar to real fights (can fool to look real)
- minute differences between play and aggression
- Use intension movements to show play (stops miscommunication)
Intension movements in dogs (3)
- Play bow
- Lifted paw
- head down
- Submissive position
Differences between fight and play - Bekoff (3)
- frequency/ intensity of movements
- Play markers when it gets intense (to see if its still just play)
- Role reversals (bigger playmate will give advantage to others)
Play-Fighting - Biben (3)
- Behavioural flexibility ( learn about others, teach sociability)
- Gauging intentions of others
- Learning about social hierarchies
General Theory (of Play) - Spinka(4)
- Helps get experience with unexpected events
- immediate reward with dopamine
- Play has neuropharmacological impact
- Locomotor play occurs when species have variable environments
Proximate causes of play (2)
Dopamine: a primer for play
Endorphins: Play feels good
- Play can cope with stress (way to relax because of good neurotransmitters)
Panksepps view on play (2)
- Marker for good health
- Play when healthy, healthy to play