Introduction to Animal Behaviour

Question 1

What do Sac-Winged bats do to omit odour?

Answer 1

Cleans wing cavities with saliva

Laps up drops of urine from penis and mixes it with saliva and puts the mixture into his wing cavity

Puts yellow matter from penis onto chin and places this in the wing cavity

Forces drops of liquid from a gland onto his chin and places this into the wing cavity

Mixture of liquids feeds bacteria in the wing cavity to emit odour

Question 2

What two categories can Tinbergen’s questions be split into?

Answer 2

How questions (proximate/mechanisms)

Why questions (ultimate/evolution)

Question 3

What are proximate questions for animal behaviour?

Answer 3

Ontogeny (development)

Causation (physiological causes of behaviour)

Question 4

What are ultimate questions for animal behaviour?

Answer 4

Evolutionary history

Function (adaptive significance)

Question 5

What did Niko Tinbergen do?

Answer 5

Looked at animals in natural environment

Pioneered the study of functional behaviour

Question 6

What did Karl Von Frisch do?

Answer 6

Discovered the waggle dance of bees