AP Bio Unit 2

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Ecology and Behavior

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Behavior

what an animal does and how it does it

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Ethology

study of behavior

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Proximate cause

how a behavior occurs or is modified

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Ultimate cause

why a behavior in the context of natural selection

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Innate behaviors

  • Developmentally fixed

  • Automatic “built in”

  • All individuals do them

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Movement

Kinesis, Migration

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Kinesis 

random movement in a response to a stimulus

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Migration

Regular, long-distance change in location

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Movement - environmental ques

Sun, stars, Earth's magnetic field, landmarks

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Types of communication

Auditory, Visual, Tactile (touch), Pheromones, Dancing

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Pheromones

Chemical substances that attract other animals usually in mating through smell

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Learned behaviors

  • Modified by experience

  • Flexible with the environment

  • Complex

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Imprinting

a long-lasting behavioral response in an individual - both learned and innate

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Associative learning

associate one stimulus with another

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Classical conditioning

An arbitrary (opinionated) stimulus associated with a particular outcome

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Operant conditioning

Trial and error learning

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Social learning

learning by observing others

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Foraging 

Food obtaining behavior - searching for food/capturing items

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Mating systems 

Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry

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Monogamy

male-female pair

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Polygamy

an individual of one sex mating with several of the other sex

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Polygyny

one male, many females

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Polyandry

one female, many males

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