Transcript Animal Behavior PowerPoint

Diversity of Life:
Animal Behavior
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Animal Behavior
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The way an organism reacts to changes
in its external or internal environment
Influenced by genetics and environment
Asks “how” (the behavior is triggered,
controlled, performed)
A blue orchard bee
pollinates a zinnia.
Asks “why” (the behavior exists)
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Innate Animal Behavior
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Instinctive or inborn
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Fully functional first time performed
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Some improve with performance or
maturation
Sow with piglet
Examples:
 Nest building
 Suckling
 Weaving a web
Female orb weaver
with prey
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Learned Animal Behavior
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Acquired/modified by experience
Types
 Habituation
 Association
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Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
(trial and error)
Insight (reasoning)
Imprinting
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Classical
conditioning of dogs
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Patterns of Behavior in Animals
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Courtship
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Parental care
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Defensive
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Foraging
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Territorial
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Periodic or Cyclic
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Migration
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Black Swan nesting,
Cygnus atratus
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Animal Communication
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Transmission, reception of, and response
to signals constitutes communication
Signals cause changes in behavior
 Visual, auditory, tactile, chemical
Examples
 Pheromones
 Dance of the honeybee
 Bird songs
 Feigning of injury
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A bee, Osmia ribifloris,
on a barberry flower
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