T3: Canine and Feline Behavior & Communication Flashcards
What are the types of animal behavior?
- Innate/instinctual behaviors
- Learned behaviors
- Imprinting
What are innate/instinctual behaviors
do not have to be learned or practiced
What are learned behaviors
to survive, to adapt to new situations and problems
What is imprinting
the interaction of learned and innate behavior
Why is understanding animal behavior important?
helps prevent problems
What are abnormal behaviors?
any activity judged to be outside the normal behavior pattern for animals of that particular class and age
What is/ types of social behavior?
social: dog vs wolf hierarchy
Communication (olfactory, auditory, visual)
What are the three types of communication?
olfactory: feces, urines, anal sacs, pheromones
Auditory: vocalizations
Visual: body language
What is feline social behavior and communication?
social structure: matriarchal in nature
- allogrooming and allorubbing
What are the communication parts for feline
- Olfactory: middening (feces), rubbing, scratching
- Visual: body language, facial expression, tall position
- Auditory: vocalizations
What are the classifications of specific behaviors?
early canine behaviors can be divided into
- epimeletic behavior: caregiving
- et- epimeletic behavior: care seeking
- allelomimetic: group-activity
What is epimeletic behavior?
giving care and attention, most common between parent-young but also between other animals
What are the aspects of epimeletic behavior?
- licking the pup’s anal, and genital regions, eating urine, feces
- Grooming and licking faces
- Carrying straying puppies
- Guarding pups
- Suckling
- Regurgitation
(not in red)
- pushing pups with the nose to encourage them toward warmth and feeding opportunities
-carrying food for puppies
What is et- epimeletic behavior?
as they age, puppies perform rutting and whining
What is the et-epimeletic behavior?
- tail wagging
- licking the mother’s face
- jumping up and pawing at the mother
- following the mother closely
- yelping
What is allelomimetic behavior?
Group behaviors that puppies exhibit as they move into their more social periods include
What are allelomimetic behaviors?
- Feeding
- Sleeping together
- Walking, running and sitting or lying together
- Investigating things as a group
- Barking or howling as a group
- Grooming other group members
- Sniffing and nosing other members of the group
What are the canine and feline behaviors summary?
social, resting, ingestive, elimination, sexual, maternal, play, investigative, agonist behavior and dominance/submission
What are the first 5 behavioral problems?
Communication: vocalizations
Social Behavior: Separation anxiety
Resting Behavior: nocturnal activity
Ingestive Behavior: Pica
Elimination Behavior: Sprayinf
What are the second 5 behavioral problems?
Sexual behavior: mounting
Maternal behavior: maternal/paternal neglect and aggression
Play: inappropriate play behavior, nipping
Investigative behavior: fear
Agonist behavior/hierarchy: fear/dominance aggression
What is a stereotypy?
a repetitive or ritualistic movement, posture, or sound; in humans, stereotypies may be simple movements such as body rocking
What is a stereotype?
an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people; stereotypes are generalized
What are stereotypic behaviors?
it is a normal behavior performed in a repetitive (compulsive) manner
-repetitive behaviors
-constant in form
-no obvious purpose or function in the context
A stereotypy is a what?
non-specific sign and a description: it is not a diagnosis
