ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crepuscular, Body Language, Estrous Cycle
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Capuchin monkeys have used stones as tools to prepare cashew nuts for more than 700 years. What is behaviour: anything organisms do that involves an action in response to internal or external behaviour. Internal example: hormones, external example: light, gravity, temperature. Innate behaviour - response to a stimuli that is performed spontaneously ex. startle in response to a noise (external stimulus) Reflexes - removing finger from hot stove) and can also be learned over time. Learned behaviour - develops as the result of experience. Ultimate - large scale, big functions of behaviour from an evolutionary perspective: different levels of explanation, proximate - immediate cause of behaviour - chemical or physiological response, ontogenetic - when behaviour arrives in lifetime - ex. Childhood, adolescence, adulthood etc: phylogenetic - how behaviour is distributed across an entire species or b/w species. Female chimps use twigs to fish termites out of earthy nests. Goodall studying chimps and dian fossey studying gorillas - hence the tri-mates
