Behavioral Ecology

What is Behavioral Ecology?

• the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.

• the branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed

• the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures

• the natural science that involves the study of life and living organisms

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What is Proximate Cause?

• evolutionary reasoning for an organism’s behavior

• the immediate, observable reasoning for an organism’s behavior

• an animals diet

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What is Social Behavior?

• the highest level of organization of animals

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• how animals reproduce

• behavior among two or more organisms, typically from the same species

What is the definition of Behavior?

• an organism’s immediate and observable reason for doing something

• a skill that an animal develops after it is born

• a way in which a living thing responds to its surroundings

• a skill that an animal develops after it is born

What is a Gene?

• a tiny piece of material that contains hereditary information and control how traits develop in offspring

• birds flying south

• the passing of traits from parents to offspring before birth

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Learned Behaviors...

• Are learned by an animal’s interaction with the world

• Can be changed

• Can not be changed

• Can occur when an animal seeks to avoid or repeat a past experience

Instinctive (innate) behaviors...

• Are learned

• Are not learned

• Cannot be exchanged

• Passed down from parents

Environment is...

• Behavior

• A house

• Factors like learned behaviors and inherited traits

• A baby

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