Higher Biology - Unit 3 - Part 4 - Animal Behaviour

Question 1

What behavioural indicators will a domesticated animal show if it is stressed and not showing normal, natural behaviour patterns

Answer 1

• stereotypy,
• misdirected behaviour
• failure in sexual or parental behaviour
• altered levels of activity.

Question 2

A lion pacing up and down in a bare zoo cage is showing what type of behaviour?

Answer 2

Stereotypy

Question 3

How can stereotypy in a zoo animal be reduced ?

Answer 3

By enriching its environment and making it closer to its natural environment and increasing the area of their environment

Question 4

A chicken plucking its own feathers or pecking at other birds feathers is displaying

Answer 4

misdirected behaviour

Question 5

Attributing human behaviour to an animal is called

Answer 5

anthropomorphism

Question 6

In a _____________ test experiment, hens were observed to see whether they preferred straw or sawdust on their cage floors.

Answer 6

preference

Question 7

If an animal is driven to hunt for food due to hunger, we say the animal has __________ to satisfy the basic needs such as hunger

Answer 7

motivation

Question 8

Altered levels of activity eg
• higher levels such as hyper aggression (hysteria) or
• lower levels such as excessive sleep (apathy)
can be indicators that …

Answer 8

an animal is suffering / poor welfare