Autoecology & Animal Behaviour
This famous scientist studied the behaviour of chimpanzees for over 60 years.
Who is Jane Goodall?
Dr. Stan Boutin found that black capped chickadees may be more likely to be recaptured in a capture-recapture study because of this variance in behavioural traits.
What is personality?
The acronym ALAN stands for this.
What is "artificial light at night?"
Scientists are exploring using CRISPR gene editing to exploit this behaviour in Australian cane toad tadpoles.
What is cannibalism?
The reason it is important to consider ethics in wildlife management through animal behaviour modification.
Conservation actions cannot be viewed in a vacuum - like all life sciences, conservation actions raise ethical questions.
This word is another term for "autoecology."
What is species biology?
This is one example of a successful conservation initiative that was driven by animal behaviour research.
What are:
- wildlife crossings
- what are non-lethal deterrents
- what are foraging deterrents
- what are embedded road lights?
Blue whales have been observed to be changing the frequency they communicate at in response to this.
What is anthropogenic ocean noise pollution?
The YOLO-Behaviour AI framework has the most difficulty identifying this behaviour in human subjects.
What is eating?
This this is the root of many issues in wildlife management, conservation, and human-wildlife conflict. This brings forward questions about the appropriateness of modifying an animal's behaviour instead of this root cause.
What is anthropogenic activity?
Hall and Halliday's 1998 description of animal behaviour.
What is "everything dead animals no longer do?"
One reason that the study of animal behaviour is crucial to wildlife management.
What is:
- animal behaviour is often the first thing to change when the environment changes
- understanding behaviour helps design effective management plans
- behaviour can indicate disturbance before demographic changes are observable
Male feminization of some fish can be an endproduct of this.
What is aquatic pharmaceutical pollution?
These are two types of monitoring tools that the team including Stan Boutin used to study lynx predation of small prey items.
What are acoustic readers and accelerometers?
This term refers to unexpected consequences to non-target species as a result of behaviour-based management actions.
What is behavioural bycatch?
These describe Tinbergen's 4 questions about animal behaviour.
What are:
- The proximate cause / mechanism
- The development / ontogeny
- The adaptive significance / current utility
- The evolutionary origin / phylogeny
This term describes the variable degree to which individuals of the same species have the ability to learn new behaviours.
What is behavioural plasticity?
This is known as the "human shield effect."
What is the effect in which some wildlife benefits from human presence by experiencing reduced predation?
This measure of aversive behavioural control has been used to protect herds from lion predation in Zimbabwe.
What is hazing?
The reason aversive taste-conditioning of monitor lizards could be considered ethically ambiguous.
What is the use of live cane toads as the training bait.
Conservationist Shirley Strum began a behavioural study of this animal in 1972, which is still ongoing today.
What are olive baboons?
This is the scientific name of the cane toad.
What is Rhinella marina?
This U of A researcher, who visited our class this term, described the human shield effect in elk.
Who is Dr. Evelyn Merrill?
This trigger activates a strong feeding response in Australian cane toad tadpoles.
What is a chemical being released by a younger conspecific hatching from its egg?
These are the potential ethical implications of modifying animal behaviour to achieve management goals.
What are:
- animal welfare
- disrupting normal behaviours
- impacts on non-target species
- and impacts on communities?