BIOA02H3 Final: BIOA02 all lecture notes.docx
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Lecture 1 biology of animal behavior 1 4/7/2013 3:55:00 pm. Most behaviors have both instinctive and learned components: Instinctive behaviors: genetically programmed response, complete and functional on first use, fixed action patterns-same response over and over again. Repeatable in response to sign stimuli(smiling human babies, herring gull chicks). Herring gull chicks see red spot on beak(stimuli) and begs for food(response). The cuckoo is the parasite where the sparrow is the parent. The cuckoo are releasers(exaggerated stimuli) that pretend to be the sparrow"s chick. Central snake do not eat banana slug even though they were the same species. Allelle affect the enzyme which cause behavior differences. Learned behavior: dependent upon particular experience during development, adaptive behavior-personal social change in negative behavior. It is because by adding carrot plants into nest, they are able to reduce mites into nest: song birds learn their songs. (experiment by peter marlow, the process of experiences changing behavior, imprinting.
