BIO153H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 51.1: Spiny Lobster, Endocrine System, Photuris
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Most behavioural studies start by carefully observing what animals do in response to specific problems or situations. Efforts to explain behavior at the proximate and ultimate levels are complementary. To understand what an organism is doing, biologists want to know how the behaviour happens and why. Behaviour at understanding how individuals cope with changing physical conditions or how they interact with individuals of their own or other species (how they act with environment) Highly inflexible stereotype behaviour patterns like a kangaroo rat"s jump-back are called fixed action patterns. Fixed action patterns are examples of what biologists call innate behaviour. Even though virtually all species studied to date show some degree of innate behaviour, it is much more common for an individual"s behaviour to: change in response to learning, show flexibility in response to changing environmental conditions. Most animals have a range of actions that they can perform in response to a situation.
