Animal Behavior

The study of animal behavior in a natural environment.

• Ethology
• Biology
• Zoology
• Entomology

Training to cause a response in a specific manner to a specific stimulus.

• Conditioning
• Negative reinforcement
• Inate
• Investigating

The careful management and care of an animal or group of animals.

• husbandry
• conditioning
• cultivation
• monitoring

Animals using sounds to communicate danger, feeding, reproductive readiness, species recognition, and to make and defend territory.

• auditory
• olfactory
• tactile
• visual

The role breath odor, urine, feces and body odor play in communication.

• auditory
• olfactory
• tactile
• visual

Type of communication that involves touch in behaviors such as social bonding, infant care, grooming, courtship and mating.

• auditory
• olfactory
• tactile
• visual

Messages communicated through a variety of means including color, posture, shape and movement.

• auditory
• olfactory
• tactile
• visual

Ears erect and pointed forward, mouth slightly opened with lips curled, tail erect and wagging in tight circles are all signs of

• aggressive threats
• active submission
• passive submission
• play initiation

Eats pointed backwards, mouth open in a grin, body crouched and low to ground, and tail tucked between legs and/or wagging anxiously.

• aggressive threat
• active submission
• passive submission
• play initiation

Ears flattened against head, no eye contact, rolls on side, tail tucked tightly to body.

• aggressive threat
• active submission
• passive submission
• play initiation