Objective 4.05: Analyze the broad patterns of animal behavior as adaptations to the environment.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

3 BEHAVIOR TYPES

1.Innate2.Learned3.Social

INNATE Instinctual or Inborn behavior Successful on the first try but

can get better with maturation.

1. Migration: Movement from a cold location to a warm location to increase your chances for finding food and surviving.

INNATE2. Suckling: The drawing of milk into

the mouth from the nipple of the mammary gland.

INNATE3. Phototaxis: The movement toward

or away from light. Ex: Moths to light; Cockroaches

away from light

LEARNED Acquired

Modified with experience1. Habituation: Stop responding to irrelevant

stimuli because no reward or punishment is received. Ignoring a loud running refrigerator sound. A bird not being scared by every overhead shadow.

LEARNED2. Trial & Error: Trying a variety of

methods until the correct one is found.

LEARNED3. Classical Conditioning:

When one stimulus causes and emotional response and one does not. When both stimuli are presented together, and association is made and the stimulus that did not cause an emotional response will then begin to.

LEARNED4. Imprinting: Mimicking the first thing

seen after birth. Duckling following their mama.

SOCIAL Communication

1. Territorial Defense: Animal protects its space and resources from other animals.

Siamese Fighting Fish: Males are very aggressive toward each other. They try to dominate and will fight until one wins.

SOCIAL2. Social Structure

Pheromones: Scents produced by animals that send a message.

Courtship Dances: Formalized flirtation between two sexes of a species.