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The document discusses various topics related to animal behavior including behavioral ecology, stimuli, learning, rhythmic behaviors, foraging behavior, social behavior, mating behavior, communication, and altruism. It provides examples of fixed action patterns, habituation, associative learning, dominance hierarchies, monogamy, polygamy, communication via smells and dancing in honeybees, kin selection and reciprocal altruism. The document also includes a self-quiz question about behavioral ecology perspectives on bee sensory abilities.
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Animal Behaviour
[1] The document discusses various types of animal behaviors including innate behaviors, learned behaviors, and different patterns of behaviors such as feeding behavior, social behavior, predatory behavior, and reproductive behavior.
[2] It provides examples of different types of innate responses in animals like tropisms, taxes, kineses, and reflexes. Learned behaviors can develop through experiences and include habituation, imprinting, and conditioning.
[3] The document also examines various patterns of behaviors in detail including social behavior in insects like bees, parental behavior in birds and mammals, and anti-predator behaviors used by animals for protection.
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2. During the trip, students will make observations, comparisons, and record their findings about examples of animals and plants they encounter.
3. Back in the classroom, students will be asked the original questions about what defines a living thing, animal, and plant to evaluate what they've learned and ensure they can distinguish the key characteristics of each.
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- It defines behavior as what animals do and how they do it, classifying behaviors as innate or learned.
- It introduces ethology, the study of animal behavior in natural environments, and some pioneers in the field like Von Frisch, Tinbergen, and Lorenz.
- It discusses concepts like behavioral ecology, evolutionary fitness, proximate and ultimate explanations for behavior, and Tinbergen's four questions for understanding behavior.
- It provides examples of innate behaviors like fixed action patterns, kinesis, taxis, and migration as well as learned behaviors like associative learning, operant conditioning, and observational learning
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