Behavioral Ecology

The study of the interaction of organisms and their environment (including the biotic environment)

• Biology

• Life Science

• Ecology

• Botony

What an animal does and how it does it.

• Attitude

• Behavior

• Perosanilty

• Cognition

Explanations focus on the mechanics behind how something happens.

• proximate

• Ultimate

• maturation

• hydration

Explanations focus on the evolutionary significance of something.

• Proximate

• Ultimate

• Maturation

• Hydration

Samon spawn in the same rivers they were born in. (give the proximate explanation)

• water temperature changes trigger hormonal changes leading to spawning instinct and migration behaviors that cause a return down a familiar path to where they were born.

• These ancestral birthing grounds have over time proved to be safe places for the salmon to spawn and have allowed them to reproduce safely generation after generation leading to the successful passing down of genes.

• They just want to go home before they die

• Run fishy Run

Samon spawn in the same rivers they were born in. (give the Ultimate explanation)

• water temperature changes trigger hormonal changes leading to spawning instinct and migration behaviors that cause a return down a familiar path to where they were born.

• These ancestral birthing grounds have over time proved to be safe places for the salmon to spawn and have allowed them to reproduce safely generation after generation leading to the successful passing down of genes.

• They just want to go home before they die

• Run fishy Run

Type of behavior that is developmentally fixed

• Imprint

• intrinsic

• Innate

• Innovative

Learning: 

• Something we do in school 

• Pre-determined behaviors

• A series of trial and errors 

• Expeienced Based modification of behavior

A sensative period of time when learning of particular behaivors can take place.

• Imprinting

• Imaging

• Intrinsic

• Imagining

Learning one stimulus with another

• Associative learning

• pair learning

• Match Learning

• Double Learning