animal behaviour

who studied the bee waggle dance?

von Frisch

what is the innate mechanism called ?

fixed action patten

what is something that triggers the innate responses in organisms ?

a sign stimulus

who studied the egg rolling behaviour of goose(fixed action pattern)?

Tinbergen

what is the stimulus that trigges the male sickleback fish to attack ?

the red belly coloration

what are the types of learned behaviours ?

1)imprinting

2)habituation

3)conditioning (associative learning)

4)insight (reasoning/ problem solving)

who discovered imprinting ?

lorenz

when does imprinting happen?

in a critical period of time early in an organism’s life

what is loss of response after being exposed to a stimulus repeatedly?

habituation

what is the type of learning behaviour in which one stimulus become linked to another through experience?

conditioning

what is this type of conditioning ?

classical conditioning

who discovered classical conditioning?

pavlov

what is the basis of animal training?

operant conditioning

who is operant conditioning attributed to?

B.F. Skinner

what is this type of conditioning?

operant conditioning

what is the use of past experiences and reasoning to solve problems?

insight

with whom does cooperation happen?

between relatives

what is an aggressive behaviour?

agonistic behaviour

what is the baheviour that reduces an indivual reproductive fitness while increasing he fitness of group or family?

altruism / kin-selection

what occurs when an animal engages in self-sacrificial bahviour tha benefits the genetic fitness of its relatives ?

kin selection

what are alarm calls and vampire bats feeding other bats with its own blood examples of ?

altruism

what are examples of communication between animals?

1)visual

2)auditory

3)chemical(involving pheromones)

4)tactile(touch)

5)olfactory(smell)

6)gustatory(taste )

what is a chemical that an animal produces which changes the behaviour of another animal of the same species ?

pheromones

in what things does pheromones play a role in ?

sexual attraction and copulatory behaviour

what is it when a species can change thir colour or pattern to match its enviroment to blend in ?

camouflage

what is it when a harmles creature makes itself look more dangerous ?

mimicry

what is a form of movement behaviour that involves movement towards or away from a stimulus ?

taxis

can plants have taxis ?

no, plants cant move

what is the movement in response to light?

phototaxis

what is movement in response to chemical signals?

chemotaxis

what is movement in response to gravity ?

geotaxis

what are animals the has a constant internal body temperature ?

endotherms

what are examples of endotherms ?

mammals and birds

how do endotherms keep their body temp constant?

by inctreasing metablolic heat production

what are animals whose body temp depends on external enviroment?

ectotherms

who are the ectotherms ?

fish, amphibian, and reptiles