Behavior
Is defined as the conduct or action of an organism
Behavior
Revolves around communication, including visual, auditory, and olfactory signals.
Social Behavior
Systematic watching and recording of animal behavior in natural settings.
Observations
Learning that involves connecting a behavior or response to a positive or negative stimulus.
Associative Learning
Used to describe species in which hatching or birth occurs relatively early in development, and the offspring are typically helpless and require parental care.
Altricial
the scientific study of animal behavior.
Ethology
Behavior includes mating systems like monogamy, polygamy, and promiscuity.
Reproductive
Controlled investigations designed to test hypotheses about behavior.
experiments
Refers to the reduction or elimination of a response to a stimulus after repeated exposure. It's the opposite of sensitization.
Habituated
A stimulus that is unrelated but becomes associated with another stimulus, evoking a response.
Conditional Stimulus
This plays a role in the construction of sense organs and the nervous system.
Genes
Behavior involves conflicts over dominance, social hierarchy, and resources.
Agnostic
The use of tools like GPS trackers, cameras, and sensors to monitor and analyze animal behavior.
Technology
The act of copying an individual's behavior by observing and replicating it.
Imitation
The process by which young animals recognize and become attached to their parents, typically occurring early in life.
Filial Imprinting
Impacts behavior through learning and imprinting.
Environment
Behavior in animals can include desertion of young, cannibalism, chewing non-food objects (e.g., wood, rocks), and repetitive pacing.
Abnormal
the tendency to attribute human characteristics to animals
anthropomorphism
Used to describe species in which hatching or birth occurs relatively late in development, and the offspring are born in a more advanced and self-sufficient state.
Precocial
When a young animal recognizes and becomes attracted to another animal, often their parent, due to the process of imprinting that occurs early in life.
Imprinted
The same animal may respond differently to the same stimulus over time, through processes like..
habituation or learning
Behavior is a response to
Stimuli
Stereotypic behavior observed in confined cattle with their tongues
tongue rolling
An individual is sensitized when it becomes more responsive to a strong or novel stimulus, causing heightened reactions to subsequent stimuli.
Sensitized
A response to a stimulus that is directly related to the nature of the stimulus itself, not dependent on the association with another stimulus. For example, salivation in response to food.
Unconditional Response