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INTRO TO ANIMALS: behavior
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 1
12/15/2010

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Major Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior:
Behavioral Ecology
Definition
The study of how the behavior of a species interacts with its physical, social and biological environment.
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Major Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior:
Comparative Psychology
Definition
The study of the components that control behavior
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Major Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior:
Ethology
Definition
The study of an animal's behavior within its environment.
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Major Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior:
Sociobiology
Definition
The study of how social behavior is related to biology.
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Imprinting happens:
Definition
shortly after the animal is born/hatched.
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Some dogs have a natural instinct to:
Definition
Herd
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Two categories of animal behavior:
Definition
instinctive behavior and learned behavior
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Intelligence is the ability of the animal to:
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Learn
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Conditioning
Definition
the animal learned by associating a certain response with a certain stimulus.
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Animals chosen for domestication were used as:
Definition
Food, Workers, or as companions
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Gregarious
Definition
Animals that tend to want to herd or flock together(most farm animals)
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