BIEB 166 Lecture Notes - Karl Von Frisch, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz

• School: UCSD
• Department: Biol/Ecology, Behavior, & Evol
• Course: BIEB 166
• Professor: James Nieh

Document Summary

The study of animal behavior under natural conditions. Ethology begins with evolution and thus begins with darwin. The expression of emotions in animals and man (1872) Favorable to the animal to adapt the environment. Ethology means: a cautionary table of bee color vision. Von hess box: shine through light of different color. Asked what if they only want to get out of the box. Train bees to recognize the blue color: if bees have color vision, then they will go to the blue card forage. Experiment 2 greys and from white to back, blue. Use lasers: bees come one by one: very precisely regulate the wavelength the bees are learning through. There are cone cells present in bees" eyes. Moral: behavior should be studied in a sufficiently natural, appropriate context.