ANTH 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Estrous Cycle, Inclusive Fitness, Frugivore
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Hardwired but need to be taught how to use in social context. Observable action (e. g. vocalization, display, scent marking/pheromone scent) Appropriate use must be learned in a social context. Why the animal does it proximate. Example: female walks up to male and shows him her estrous. Some signals come from fear or anxiety has to do with what was going on with the or- ganism at that specific time. Physical properties of the sound is how individuals communicate. Sounds have meanings (receiver makes picture in minds of what that sound corre- sponds to) researchers think this because this is exactly what we do. Example: when we hear the word pencil, the first thing we picture in our mind is a long object that you can write with. Researchers believed this is the same thought process primates of through upon receiving a signal.