ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Grooming, Canidae
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Behaviour anything organisms do that involves action in response to internal or external stimuli; the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment. Such responses may or may not be deliberate, and they aren"t necessarily the result of conscious decision making. Ecological pertaining to the relationships between organisms and all aspects of their environment (temperature, predators, non-predators, vegetation, availability of food and water, types of food, disease organisms, parasites, etc. ) Behavioural ecology the study of the evolution of behaviour, emphasizing the role of ecological factors as agents of natural selection. Behaviours and behavioural patterns have been favored because they increase the reproductive fitness of individuals (i. e. they are adaptive) in specific environmental contexts. Social structure the composition, size, and sex ratio of a group of animals. The social structure of a species is, in part, the result of natural selection in a specific habitat, and it guides individual interactions and social relationships.
