Introduction To Animal Biology: Animal Behaviour

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  • Created on: 30-10-19 15:07
Define Animal Behaviour
mechanisms and functions of a behaviour
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Define Behavioural Ecology
how physical environment impacts on an animals behaviour and its evolution
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Define Sociobiology
how social environment impacts on an animals behaviour and its evolution
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What four questions do we ask when looking at behaviour?
1) Mechanism: what and how? 2) Survival Value 3) Evolutionary 4) Developmental?
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5 Steps Of Natural Selection
1) Variation 2) Competition 3) Sucess/Fitness 4) Inheritence 5) Adaptation
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What are the two types of behaviour?
Innate and Learned
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Describe innate behaviour.
genetically programmed response to stimuli, heritable, intrinsic, inflexible, No learning required
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Describe learned behaviour.
as a result of experience, non hereditable, extrinsic (not in wild would effect behaviour), can change, adaptive
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Outline 5 types of learning.
1) Habituation 2)Observational 3)Conditional 4)Learning Through Play 5)Insight Learning
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Describe Imprinting.
Programmed learning, innate behaviour released in response to a learnt stimulus, critical period
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How did learning evolve?
assumed some cost to learning, ability to learn will be favoured in environements that change relatively often
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What is a FAP?
Fixed Action Patterns, sequence of unlearned behavioural acts, unique, unchanging, once initiate carried out to complettion e.g. stickleback fishey
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What is direct and indirect fitness?
direct= own offspring, indirect fitness= helping relatives
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What is Hamilton's Rule?
rB>C, r=coefficient relatedness B= benefit gained by recipient, C=cost individual performing act
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Define Alturism
Fitness of another individual at a cost to yourself
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