Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Behavior = What an animal does and how it does it.• Ultimate versus
Proximate causation
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Fixed-action pattern (FAP) = highly stereotyped, innate behavior.• Newly hatched
chicks
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Optimal behavior = A behavior that maximizes individual fitness• Songbird
repertoires
Learning
Learning versus maturation• Herring Gull Chick
Feeding Habituation =
ignore irrelevant information.• Grey Squirrels
Learning
Imprinting = learning limited to a specific time period, irreversible• Imprinting stimulus
and critical period Associative learning:
classical and operant conditioning
Animal Cognition
Cognition connects n.s. function with behavior
Cognition is ability of n.s. to perceive, store, process and use info gathered• Migration
Social Behavior & Sociobiology
Agnostic behavior Dominance
hierarchies Territoriality Courtship (parental
investment) Inclusive fitness
• altruism (scrub jays)
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