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W1 - Animal Behaviour (History, Analysis) [Dr. Madikiza] Flashcards

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Explain the history of animal behaviour?

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People wanted to understand animals for exploitation of prey through hunting, domestication & scientific study.

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Ways prey were & are exploited? (3)

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• Hunting.
• Domestication.
• Scientific study.

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Hunting?

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= understand animal behaviour to better capture prey (from prehistory till today).

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Domestication?

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= understand animal behaviour to be able to train animals to do what they desire them to do (seen in horses, dogs, not cats).

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Scientific study?

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= understand animal behaviour for the purposes of answering Tinbergen’s questions.

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People involved in scientific study to understand animal behaviour? (3)

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• Lorenz.
• Tinbergen.
• von Frisch.

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The history of animal behaviour began with ethology, why ethology?

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Ethologists believed that in order to fully understand animal behaviour, an animal has to be in its natural environment (no manipulation).

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Why the shift & diversification from ethology?

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It’s because even though one could understand animal behaviour with the animal in its natural environment, a true scientist would want to quantify that/what they’re seeing & the only way one can do that is through laboratory settings & manipulation in a sense.

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Approaches to behavioural studies? (2)

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• Mechanistic approach.
• Ethological approach.

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Mechanistic approach is AKA?

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Comparative psychology.

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Mechanistic approach attributes? (5)

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• Physiological.
• Developmental.
• Quantitative.
• Laboratory-orientated.
• Manipulate the animal.

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Ethological approach attributes? (4)

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• Evolutionary.
• Comparative.
• Descriptive.
• Field-oriented.

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Mechanistic approach answers which questions of Tinbergen? (2)

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• What does the behaviour? (Causation)
• How did the behaviour develop? (Ontogeny)

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Ethological approach answers which Tinbergen questions? (2)

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• Function of behaviour? (Function/Survival value)

• How it evolved? (Phylogeny)

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Niko Tinbergen?

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= founder of Experimental ethology.

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The 4 Questions of Tinbergen?

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• Causation/Mechanism.
• Ontogeny/Development.
• Function/Survival value.
• Evolution/Phylogeny.

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Questions asked under Causation? (3)

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  • How does it work?
  • Which stimuli illicit the behaviour patterns?
  • What neurobiological, psychological or physiological mechanisms contribute or regulate this behaviour?
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Questions asked under Ontogeny? (4)

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  • How did it develop?
  • How did the behaviour arise during the lifetime of the individual?
  • How does the development process work?
  • How does the environment influence the development of this behaviour?
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Questions asked under Function? (3)

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  • What is the behaviour’s survival value?
  • Why does the behaviour exist?
  • Why does behaving in a particular way help the individual to survive & reproduce?
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Questions asked under Phylogeny? (2)

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  • How did the behaviour evolve?
  • What factors might have been involved in molding this behaviour over the course of evolution.
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Tinbergen’s HOW questions?

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= deal with the immediate/proximate causation of a specific behaviour (immediate explanation).

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Tinbergen’s WHY questions?

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= focus on ultimate causation, ie., the evolutionary origin & purpose of a behaviour (long-term explanation).

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Level of analysis in the study of animal behaviour?

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= involves answering questions on animal behaviour through the lenses of Tinbergen’s questions.

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Example that we used to analyze animal behaviour with Tinbergen’s questions?

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Singing in male zebra finches.

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Causation/Mechanism?

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= neural pathways, muscular & endocrine explanation for behaviour.

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What causes male zebra finches to sing? (3)

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• Elevated blood concentration of estrogen.

• High rates of neural circuitry in certain brain areas (song areas).

• Muscles in the vocal cord vibrate to enable song production.

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Ontogeny/Development?

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= explanations of how genetic inheritance & experience influence behavioural development, neural pathways, muscular and endocrine explanations for behaviour.

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What causes zebra finches to sing? (2)

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• They sing because they have undergone puberty.

• They learnt their songs from their fathers.

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Evolution/Phylogeny?

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= evolutionary (historical) explanations.

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Why do zebra finches sing?

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Zebra finches might sing because they are finches & that all finches song because they have evolved from a common ancestral species that sings.

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Function/Survival value?

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= explanations of how the behaviour increases survival and/or reproductive success.

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Why do male zebra finches sing/portray this particular behaviour?

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It’s because this behaviour increases the chance of attracting female zebra finches and reproducing.

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Why do young salmon migrate to the sea? (2)

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• Proximate explanations.
• Ultimate explanations.

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Things to note about genes? (3)

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• Only expressed if the environment allows them to be expressed.

• Tie in to innate behaviour.

• Often used to explain Causative & Ontogenic explanations.

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Ethology?

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= the scientific study of animal behaviour in natural conditions, which attempts to combine causal & functional explanations.

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Aims & Objectives of Ethology? (6)

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  • Understand why animals behave the way that they do.
  • Understand the causes of behaviour.
  • The physiological mechanism that generates the action.
  • Study evolutionary history of behaviour.
  • Understand how the behaviour develops.
  • Study the range of behaviours prevalent in the animal kingdom.
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Atlantic salmon migration: Causation?

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Increasing day-length & temperature trigger a suite of physiological changes, which in turn change the ontogeny and behaviour of the young salmon.

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Atlantic salmon migration: Ontogeny?

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The salmon needs to reach a certain size to be able to migrate successfully, so it will have to wait until it is large enough.

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Atlantic salmon migration: Function? (2)

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  • Enables salmon to exploit the richer food resources & large feeding areas in the sea.
  • Migrating salmon are larger, and therefore have a higher reproductive success through increased fecundity (in females) & superior ability to compete for females (in males).
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Atlantic salmon migration: Phylogeny? (2)

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  • Different strategies practiced by ancestors are retained in current-day species.
  • Atlantic salmon share the migratory behaviour with closely related species.

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