BIOL 345- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Animal behaviour lecture 1 historical study of animal behaviour. Aristotle: 350 bc: similarity in shape usually meant similarity in behaviour. Penguin and loon behave in similar ways, fish and sharks, etc. Animals that looked alike acted in similar ways. Frederick ll: 1194-1250 ad: the art of falconry: thorough academic text used until recently. Set in motion for subsequent research in hawks and how they behave in certain ways. Darwin (1870): similar emotions and gestures in primates indicates shared ancestry. He was vilified for this book (more than natural selection) as it indicated similarities between humans and chimps. Spalding (1875): learning and instinct, imprinting in domestic chickens some variation what they imprint on when mother hen not there. Plants turn to follow sun (hormonal, growth effect). Sherrington (1906): integrative action of the nervous system have rise to modern psychological theory. Jennings (1920): trial and error earning in invertebrates. Huxley (1930): integration of behaviour, ecology and evolution great crested grebe reproductive behaviour.
