Topic 2
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- Created on: 08-05-13 08:50
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- Topic 2
- Animals
- Courtship Behaviours -e.g male birds stut around showing colourful feathers to impress females
- Mating
- Lions-has serveal mating partners over a lifetime
- Sea-Lions,behave in the same way as lions
- Monogamous - have one mating partner over a lifetime. E.g swans, coyotes.
- Mating
- Parental Care
- Mammals
- Pregnancy -female carries her young in hrt unterus which provides the offspring with protection
- Breast feeding- provides them with nutrients
- General protection- when parents keeps an eye on their young.The young gradually copies their parents behaviours
- Birds
- Incubation- parents sit on eggs which keeps them warm
- Feeding- leave chicks in nests to go looking for food
- General protection - building a nest to find eggs from predators
- Parental care has evolved which means the chances of genes being past down is increased
- Mammals
- Instintive and Learned Behaviour
- Instinct: inherited from parents and not affected by the enviorment
- Learned Behaviours
- Operant conditioning -animal learns to do something by being awarded e.g blind dogs
- Classical Conditioning- animal will learn without trying.
- Ivan Pavlov- He conditioned a dog to sailvate when it hears a bell
- Habituation -simplest type of learning where a animal stops responding to a stimulus, (cat ignores her bell on her collar)
- Imprinting - where animals copy their parents. E.g when young birds imprint their parents by following them
- Choice chamber- a box separated into different areas with different enviorments. A investingation is carried to see what envioment woodlice choose
- Animal communication
- Uses for communication: Warn each other of danger. Attracting a mate. Help hunting.
- Ways of communicating: Making sounds. Producing chemicals. Signals or displays. Facial expressions or body language
- Chemicals- release them to attract a mate, scare off competitors or mark out territory
- Signals or display- used to attract a mate or present a treat.
- Body language- most mammals communiate through body posture
- Facial expressions- ways species commuicate to their own species.
- Courtship Behaviours -e.g male birds stut around showing colourful feathers to impress females
- Animals
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