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Animal Behavior
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- 1Animal behavior can provide important signals related to:-animal well being
-management conditions
-biological changes - 2An animal responds both ____ and __ to the environment.An animal responds both BEHAVIORALLY and PHYSIOLOGICALLY to the environment.
- 3Behaviors are defined by 2 criteria. Name these criteria.1. behavioral mechanism
2. biological need - 4What is a behavioral mechanism?how an animal knows/learns how to perform a specific behavior
- 5What is a biological need?what the animal gains from the behavior
- 6What are the 6 behavioral mechanisms?-instinct
-imprinting
-habituation
-conditioning
-trial and error
-reasoning - 7What behavioral mechanism is described below? -behaviors present at birth -animal is born knowing how to do it -usually controlled by biological changes within animal -not learnedInstinct
- 8What behavioral mechanism is described below? -young animals bond to their caretakers -suggestion that chemicals may be involved -hybrid of instinct and learned behaviorImprinting
- 9What behavioral mechanism is described below? -learned behavior -lack of a response to a repeated stimulus -animal should behave one way, over time with exposure to same stimuli, animals loses behaviorHabituation
- 10What behavioral mechanism is described below? -when an animal associates a behavior with a stimulus -involves a third party (human or animal)Conditioning
- 11What behavioral mechanism is described below? -learned behavior -trying various responses to a stimulus until a reward is received -like conditioning, but no third party -animal initiates behavior -most common way behaviors are learnedTrial and Error
- 12What behavioral mechanism is described below? -ability to respond correctly to a stimulus the first time it is applied -rare -animal thinks about action before it does it -what separates higher primates from othersReasoning
- 13What do behaviors accomplish?biological needs
- 14Name the 5 biological needs:-sexual behaviors
-caregiving behaviors
-care soliciting behaviors
-agonistic behaviors (social)
-feeding behaviors - 15What biological need is being described below? -propagation of species -broadcast sexual receptivity -preparation for lactation and birth -pheromones -pass genes onto next gene pool -one of the strongest biological drivesSexual behaviors
- 16What biological need is being described below? -originates from mother or father -protection, nourishment, and "training" youngCare giving behaviors
- 17What biological need is being described below? -originate from young (mostly) -can originate from injured/disable mature animals -used by young to signify they sneed assistance -opposite of care givingCare soliciting behaviors
- 18What biological need is being described below? -behaviors associated with flight or fight -behaviors associated with social hierarchy -least understood need -what animals do and why they do it (we could be wrong)Agonistic behaviors (social)
- 19What biological need is being described below? -behaviors associated with obtaining food -mostly for animals that require predation/foraging to meet needsFeeding Behaviors
- 20There will always be a ______ and a ______. A single ______ may fulfill more than 1 _____.There will always be a MECHANISM and a NEED.
A single BEHAVIOR may fulfill more than 1 NEED.
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- Science (Animal Science) Flashcards on Animal Behavior, created by Hannah Jordan on 09/12/2016.
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- Hannah Jordan · Dec 2016
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- Dec 13, 2016
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