PSYO 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Snowshoe Hare, Cultural Learning, Behavioural Genetics
20 Jan 2016
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One of the reasons why celts were interested in hares (cause of night rituals), is because they would come out at night in a forest clearing when there"s a full moon in a circle. Druids were mimicking the behaviour of the hares. Double the time they live in the wild. Young: isolated and away from the mother during the day. Scentless progeny (the young) generaly overlooked by well trained hunting dogs, the mothers are hider types. Together with the mother only 5-10 minutes of the day for food, generally lay somewhere alone. Cannibalistic on occasion, adults to young, not systematically eat meat, typical herbivore generally. Evolution & behaviour: genetics phylogeny and animal behaviour. Natural selection: wallace didn"t get as much attention as. Darwin published first but wallace may have started before. Competing theory: fight between the french and the brits, le. Marc came up with a theory regarding innate traits that is the very center of epigenetics.
