Chapter 51: Animal Behavior l Behavior = What an animal does and how it does it. Ultimate versus...

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Chapter 51: Animal Behavior Behavior = What an animal does and how it does it. Ultimate versus Proximate causation

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Chapter 51: Animal Behavior

Behavior = What an animal does and how it does it.• Ultimate versus

Proximate causation

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Chapter 51: Animal Behavior

Fixed-action pattern (FAP) = highly stereotyped, innate behavior.• Newly hatched

chicks

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Chapter 51: Animal Behavior

Optimal behavior = A behavior that maximizes individual fitness• Songbird

repertoires

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Learning

Learning versus maturation• Herring Gull Chick

Feeding Habituation =

ignore irrelevant information.• Grey Squirrels

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Learning

Imprinting = learning limited to a specific time period, irreversible• Imprinting stimulus

and critical period Associative learning:

classical and operant conditioning

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Animal Cognition

Cognition connects n.s. function with behavior

Cognition is ability of n.s. to perceive, store, process and use info gathered• Migration

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Social Behavior & Sociobiology

Agnostic behavior Dominance

hierarchies Territoriality Courtship (parental

investment) Inclusive fitness

• altruism (scrub jays)