Animal Behavior & Species Relationships

Signals produced by one animal that result in some type of response in another animal.

• Communication
• Reasoning
• Pheromones
• Imprinting

A defense in which one animal resembles another animal that is dangerous or poisonous.

• Mimicry
• Camouflage
• Imprinting
• Habituation

The ability to solve a problem that has not been encountered before.

• Imprinting
• Hibernation
• Reasoning
• Habituation

Internal need that causes animals to act; necessary for learning to take place.

• habituation
• imprinting
• motivation
• conditioning

An area that an animal or a group of animals occupies and defends from other members of the same species.

• Imprinting
• Trial & Error
• Territory
• Dominance Hierarchy

A threatening behavior that one animal uses to gain control over another animal.

• Territory
• Pheromones
• Courtship
• Aggression

Instinctive behavior that is programmed by the genes.

• Innate
• Learned
• Language
• Communication

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-8

Learning to ignore frequent and harmless stimuli.

• Imprinting
• Flight or Fight
• Habituation
• Estivation

The periodic movement of a group of animals from one location to another.

• Migration
• Hibernation
• Estivation
• Habituation

Chemical messages released by one animal that cause a response in another animal of the same species.

• Communication
• Pheromones
• Dominance Hierarchy
• Circadian Rhythm