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Proximate cause |
Immediate, genetic , physiological neurological, and developmental mechanisms that determine how an individual behaves |
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Ultimate causes |
Results from The evolutionary pressures that have fashioned an animal's behavior |
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Ethology |
The study of behavior and its relationship to its evolutionary origins |
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Karl Von Frisch |
Known for his extensive studies of communication in honey bees |
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Niko tinbergen |
Known for his elucidation of the fixed action pattern |
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Konrad Lorenz |
Famous for his work with imprinting |
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Fixed action pattern |
An innate stereotypic behavior, that once begun is continued to completion no matter how useless |
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Sign stimuli |
External stimuli that initiate fixed action patterns |
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Releasers |
When sign stimuli are exchanged between members of the same species |
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Piloting |
Orienting by landmarks |
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Learning |
Process in which the responses of the organism or modified as a result of experience |
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Habituation |
An organism comes to ignore a persistent stimulus so It can go about its business |
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Associative learning |
Type of learning in which one stimulus becomes linked to another through experience |
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Imprinting |
A learning that occurs during a sensitive or critical period In the early life of an individual and is irreversible for the length of that period |
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Types of social behavior |
Cooperation, agonistic, dominance hierarchies, territoriality, and altruism. |
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Agonistic behavior |
Aggressive behavior. It involves a variety of threats or actual combat to settle disputes among individuals |
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Dominance heirarchies |
Pecking order behaviors that dictate the social position and animal has and culture often seen in alpha animals |
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Territory |
An area an organism defends and from which the other members of the community are excluded |
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Altruism |
A behavior that reduces an individual's reproductive Fitness but increases the fitness of the colony or family |
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Foraging behavior |
All the behaviors involved in food Gathering and eating |
