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(Animal Behavior)

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(Dr. Nawee Noon-anant)
B 308
Email: nawee.n@psu.ac.th, nawee.tiger@gmail.com
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What is animal behavior ?

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What is animal behavior ?
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: what an animal does (Raven et al., 2011).

: acting or functioning in a specified or usual way (Scott, 2005).

Behavior is a predictable thing.

: response of an organism to a stimulus (Scott, 2005).

Behaviors are made to happen by something.
(Something = internal or external to
the animal involved)
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(behavior)

(sensory neuron) (CNS)

(receptor) (motor neuron)

(effector)
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Asking questions in the study of behavior

1. How = How does behavior X occur ?
What = What causes behavior X occur ?
: = Proximate causation (mechanisms)
_typically environmental in terms of a stimulus,
mechanisms that produce it, or how experience modified it

2. Why = Why does behavior X occur ?

: = Ultimate causation (evolutionary origin)
_ benefit to survival & reproduction
(Raven et al., 2011)2
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Songbird=
Crane =
(http://www.slideshare.net/martyynyyte/behavior-lecture-2013)2
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(animal behavior)

I. II.
(Innate behavior) (Learning behavior)
= Fixed action pattern
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I.
(Innate behavior)
= Fixed action pattern ()

Taxis Kinesis Reflex Chain of

( ( ( reflexes
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II.
(Learning behavior)
Habituation ()

Imprinting ()

Trial & error ()

Conditioning or Associative ()

Reasoning ()
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(http://www.slideshare.net/martyynyyte/behavior-lecture-2013)
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Interesting Websites
1. CoursewareMaster SciMath
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVv0oKufUk2g-HUF8oJxa5A)
For example:
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erm8E8zUwnA )
2.)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzGhhNK9DTc)
3.)
(hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcnQUndYpvc)
4.)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_eStedQ_k)