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WorksheetsAnimal Behaviour Recap
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 10mins
The study of animal behaviour is called:
Ecology
Ethology
Efficiency
Economy
Which of the following is NOT a normal behaviour?
Tail wagging on a dog
Ears pricked forwards on a horse
Rabbit foraging for food in a field
Feather plucking in birds
Which of the following is NOT a stereotypical behaviour ?
Crib-biting in horses
Sleeping up to 18 hours in cats
Tail chasing in kennelled dogs
Head bobbing in elephants in captivity
Which is NOT a possible cause of abnormal behaviour?
Stress/distress
Environmental changes
Isolation
Good and safe handling
What is crepuscular?
Awake at night asleep during the day
Awake during dawn and dusk, asleep during the day and night
Awake during the day and asleep at night
What is the correct definition for circadian rhythm
Where the animal decides that it wants to create a rhythm based on its day
certain times of the days and night when they would normally be active and others when they should be asleep.
Certain places the animal will visit during the day and night
Where the animal decides when the most appropriate time is to mate
Intraspecific communication is between...
Animals of the same species
Animals of different species
Humans and animals
An animal communicating to itself
Interspecific communication is between...
Animals of the same species
Animals of different species
Humans and animals
An animal communicating to itself
Allogrooming is...
When one animal species grooms an animal of a different species
When one animal grooms another of the same species
When an animal grooms themselves
When an animal grooms to remove moulting hair
What is the definition of behaviour
A bearded dragon will hunt small insects like worms and crickets to eat. What type of behaviour this?
What is the MAIN reason animals engage in play behaviour?
to socialise
Which of these is a LEARNED behaviour?
a peacock courting
a whale migrating
a capuchin monkey cracking nuts with a rock
a turtle hatchling crawling towards the ocean
The male peacock uses these spectacular tail feathers in a display to try to attract the attention of females of the same species, and to try to find a mate. What is this called?
hibernation
migration
courtship behaviour
territorial behaviour
What type of behaviour is inherited rather than learned?
Irrate
Innate
Imprinting
Society
This behaviour happens when an animal forms an attachment to a place or an organism within a specific time period after birth or hatching.
Migration
Instinct
conditioning
imprinting
