BIOA02H3 Lecture 25: Lecture 25
30 Jan 2019
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Tinbergen"s four questions: causation, development, adaptive function, evolutionary history. *** if you are able to answer all these 4 question then you can understand behaviour! that"s what tinbergen believed! Why do ground squirrels give a warning cry? for proximate question. Because b is looking at evolutionary history. Who was niko tinbergen?" founder of experiment ethology. Ethos = character of habit (in greek) they dig burrows. First he noticed that when a wasp was leaving it"s territory it would make a loup around it. He hypothesized maybe they are making known of the features so they can find the hole. He rearranged the pines and the wasp would go after it! He found they were paying attention to pattern. Won the nobel prize in medicine or psychology recognition for animal behaviour as rigorous science! Discovered and published most of the classical phenomena of ethology fixed action pattern (fap)
