Introduction Animal Husbandry

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Created on: 12-12-18 14:37

what were tinbergens four questions?

how does the behaviour develop over the lifetime of the animal? what stimulates the behaviour in the short term? what is the behaviour fot, how does it pormote the survival of the animal? what is the behaviours evolutionary history, where's it from?

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what is the relationship between proximate and ultimate?

he proximate and ultimate acuases of differences between individuals are complementary, nothing is mutually exclusive

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which of tinbergens four questions are proximate?

how does the behaviour develop over the lifetime of the animal? and what stimualtes the behaviour in the short term?

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which of tinbergens four questions are ultimate?

What is the behaviour for, how does it promote the sruvival of the individual? and what is the behaviours evlutionary history, where has it come from?

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what are the 4 main points for tinbergens questions

Development, mechanism, function and evolution

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how can you apply tinbergens four questions to bearded Capuchins?

development: learning from parents Mechanism: brain structures Function: access to highly nutritous resource to increase survival and Evolution:trait routed in evolutionary history

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how do you study animal behaviour?

make observations, generate hypothesis, generate predictions. test predictions and draw a conclusion

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