Animal Behavior Vocab

Response to heat; the loss of hair or fur that provides a cooling effect.

• sweating

• Panting

• Shedding

• Shivering

Stimulus cues animals to eat; food is for energy

• Courtship

• Hunger

• Sleep

• Thirst

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Behavior passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training.

• Instincts

• Conditioning

• Imprinting

• Inherited behaviors

Behavior when certain animals travel together for protection

• Grouping

• Camouflage

• Courtship

• Migration

Cues from within an animal for survival; (hunger, thirst, sleepiness)

• Behavior

• Mimicry

• Learned behaviors

• Internal Stimuli

Coloring that allows an animal to blend in with its surroundings.

• Mimicry

• Hibernation

• Sleep

• Camouflage

A complex inherited behavior, like birds building a special kind of nest.

• Instincts

• Imprinting

• Inherited behaviors

• Conditioning

Seasonal movement of an animal to another location to find food.

• Courtship

• Hibernation

• Migration

• Conditioning

Response to heat; gets rid of excess body heat by evaporating water.

• Sweating

• Blinking

• Panting

• Shivering

Cues animals to take in water

• Sleep

• Have to go #1

• Thirst

• Hunger