Animal Behavior

5/21/04

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Table of Contents

Animal Behavior

What is Behavior?

Proximate vs. Ultimate Causes

Example-Jellyfish Migration

Innate vs. Learned Behavior

Fixed Action Patterns

Example of a Fixed Action Pattern

Example of Genetic Variation for a Behavior-Roving vs. Sitting

Associative Learning

Classical Conditioning

R. Menzel- associative learning in honeybees

Operant Conditioning

Some animals for which cognitive ability has been studied

Functions of Play

Some Kinds of Behavior

Behavioral Ecology

Can natural selection influence behavior?

The Comparative Method

The total copies of the gene coding for the trait increase, even if the allele does not confer an increase in fitness to the individual in question.

Author: Alan Molumby