Lvl3BH Intro recap quiz

Why do we study animal behaviour?

• To keep ourselves safe

• To improve animal welfare and captive animal management

• To understand their life cycle

• To improve conservation efforts

• To help classify animals

Why do animals behave the way they do?

• Mating / courtship

• To gain/ keep control of territory

• Raising offspring (parental behaviour)

• Inherited characteristics

• Group living (social behaviour)

What is an ethologist?

• A person who specializes in the study of human and animal behaviour

• Someone who studies animal behaviour, in their natural environment

Which ethologist released his ideas about 'soft inheritance' ?

• Darwin

• Lamarke

• Lorenz

Who proposed his theory of evolution by natural selection alongside

Wallace?

• Charles Darwin

• Nikolaas Tinbergen

• Ivan Pavlov

Who observed dogs would begin to salivate at the sight of the lab workers / sound of a bell, when NO food was present, as they associated this with being fed?

• Darwin

• Wallace

• Lorenz

• Pavlov

Which ethologist discovered the principle of attachment of imprinting (bonding

between a new-born and a caregiver).

• Lorenz

• Tinbergen

• Darwin

Nikolaas Tinbergen is known for which of the following....

• He studied the reaction of dogs to the presentation of food

• He studied the begging behaviour of herring gull chicks

• He proposed his theory of evolution by natural selection alongside

  Wallace