01:119:115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sphex, Animal Communication, Classical Conditioning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:115
• Professor: All

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Overview: the how and why of animal activity. A behavior is the nervous system"s response to a stimulus and is carried out by the. Concept 51. 1 discrete sensory inputs can stimulate both simple and complex behaviors. Once initiated, that pattern is then carried to completion. Environmental cues trigger movement in a particular direction (ex. Magnetoreceptos (microscopic grains of magnetite (feo x fe2o3) to detect the earth"s magnetic field especially when stars are obscured by clouds. Position of sun and circadian clock (behavioral rhythms): internal 24- hour: ex. Migrating birds clock that is an integral part of nervous system (daylight and darkness: fig 51. 3 in spring, snow geese migrate from mexico to greenland, Canada, and alaska to breed, returning to their winter grounds in the. Honeybees and dance language fig 51. 5: honeybees show complex communication with symbolic. A signal an action that causes change in another animal"s behavior. Communication transmission and reception of a signal.