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
