Midterm 1 Terminology Flashcards
Communicate dominance, submission and appeasement to enhance survival/reproductive chances
Ritualized signals
Synchronized actions with owners
Social referencing
Young features/behaviour
Neotenized
Ingesting feces
Coprophagy
Detects pheromones for the detection of sexual receptivity
Vomeronasal organ
Hunt when temperatures are cooler
Crepuscular
Sleep when owner does
Diurnal
Several bouts of sleep per night
Polyphasic
One dog barks and others join
Allelomimetic behaviour
Helpless at birth
Altricial
Reciprocated bonding behaviours between two animals
Affiliative behaviours
Allogrooming, allorubbing, allopreening
Tense encounter involving threatening posturing but no fighting yet
Agonistic encounter
Care giving behaviour
Epimeletic
Ovulation stimulated by copulation
Induced ovulator
Care seeking behaviour
Etepimeletic
Ingredient in cat nip that stimulates reaction
Nepetalactone
One male, variable female/young in horses
Harem
Displayed after period of confinement, unwanted behaviours
Post inhibitory rebound
Sleep for short durations over multiple time points
Polyphasic
Required for horse REM sleep
Lateral recumbancy
Harass birds or prey, other species for their kills
Pirating
Leave the nest
Fledge
Difference in males and females
Sexual dimorphism
Stereotypic behaviour
Repetitive behaviour pattern with no obvious goal or function
Loss of sense of smell
Anosmic
Female dog elevates rump, lifts tail to one side
Lordosis stance
pony-shaped mongolian wild horse
Przewalski’s horse
