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Vocabulary Vocabulary ReviewReview
Ch 44- Animal Ch 44- Animal BehaviorBehavior
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A person who specializes in the scientific study of animal behavior
Ethologist
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An action that an individual carries out in response to
a stimulus or to the environment
Behavior
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An inherited behavior that does not depend on the
environment or experience
Innate Behavior
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An innate behavior that is
characteristic of certain species
Fixed action pattern
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The development of behaviors
through experience or
practice
Learning
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A type of learning in which an animal learns to ignore a
frequent, harmless stimulus
Habituation
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A type of learning in which specific animal
behaviors are deterred or reinforced by
external actions upon the animal; usually
refers to a controlled experimental situation
Operant conditioning
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A type of learning in which an animal learns to produce a specific
response to a predictive stimulus in
anticipation of receiving external
reinforcement
Classical conditioning
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A type of problem solving that
requires the ability to solve a problem that has not been
encountered previously
Reasoning
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Learning that occurs early and
quickly in a young animal’s life and that cannot be changed once
learned
Imprinting
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In an animal’s development, the
specific phase during which
imprinting occurs
Sensitive period
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A prediction of the ratio of the energy expended to the energy gained as an animal
searches for food; holds that animals tend to behave in a way that
maximizes food intake while minimizing efforts to
find food and avoiding dangerOptimality
hypothesis
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Threatening behavior or
physical conflict between animals
Aggressive behavior
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An area that is occupied by one
animal or a group of animals that do not
allow other members of the species to enter
Territory
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In competitive animal groups, a
ranking of individuals from
most dominant to most subordinate
Dominance hierarchy
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An animal behavior that functions to
attract mates
Courtship
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A transfer of a signal or message from one animal to
another that results in some
type of response
Communication
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In animals, bright coloration that
warns predators that a potential prey animal is
poisonous
Aposematic coloration
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A defense in which one organism
resembles another that is dangerous
or poisonous
Mimicry
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A substance that is released by the body
and that causes another individual of the same species to
react in a predictable way
Pheromone
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The interaction between animals
of the same species that are
not related or are only distant
relativesSocial behavior
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A biological daily cycle
Circadian rhythm
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A period of inactivity and lowered body
temperature that some animals undergo in
winter as a protection against cold weather
and lack of food
Hibernation
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In general, any movement of individuals or
populations from one location to another;
specifically, a periodic group movement that is characteristic of a given population or
speciesMigration