PSYCH 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Escalade, Psych, Great Tit

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Ethologist who study predator tactics focus on tradeoffs more than on any specific behaviour. Value of fighting in terms of animal behaviour. Predation the central challenge for most animals: staying alive. How fleeing predators is beneficial small proportion of animals that reach sexual maturity. Antipredatory behaviour in humans? few large predators large animals. Exercise: list at least three adaptations by pedestrians that reduce their probability of being hit by cars look both ways. Walking on sidewalks or left side of road (avoid car habitat = avoidance in space_ Cross roads at green peds light (avoidance in time) Watch both sides before and during crossing (visual inspection) Antipredatory behaviour and social learning schools of fish: confuses the behaviour, increases the survival of individuals if they are in a group. Prey approaching their predators this paradoxical behaviour does have its advantages. Only approach lions and cheetahs, but never approach wild dogs and hyenas.

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