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Comparative Animal Behavior

  • Welcome

General

  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Summative Assessment
    • Example
    • Components of Behavior, Observation, and Analysis
    • Phylogeny and Evolution
    • Neural, Hormonal, Genetic, and Development
    • Understanding Behavior
  • Capstone
  • Terms, Topics, Concepts
  • Ethical Considerations for Animal Use

Describing Behavior

  • Components
  • Observation
  • Analysis

Levels of Analysis

  • Ultimate
    • Phylogeny
    • Evolution
  • Proximate
    • Neural Mechanisms
    • Hormonal Mechanisms
    • Genetic Mechanisms
    • Endogenous Rhythms
    • Development

Understanding Behavior

  • Navigation
  • Escape
  • Communication
    • Communication: Proximate
    • Communication: Ultimate
  • Social Spectrum
    • Grouping and Cooperation
    • Eusociality
  • Family Life
    • Sexual Selection
    • Mating Systems
    • Parental Care
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Terms, Topics, Concepts

Index

A | C | E | F | G | I | L | M | N | O | P | R | S

A

  • Action
  • action specific potential (energy)
  • Activity
  • activity budget
  • associative learning

C

  • central pattern generator (CPG)
  • command neuron
  • conditional probability
  • cross fostering
  • cultural transmission

E

  • egg rolling
  • endogenous
  • entrained
  • ethogram
  • evolutionary stability/equilibrium
  • exogenous

F

  • fixed action patterns
  • Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs)
  • forward genetics
  • free-run

G

  • game theory
  • gene
  • genetic cross
  • genetic linkage
  • genome

I

  • imprinting

L

  • last common ancestor
  • light-dark cycle

M

  • monogamy, [1]
  • motivation
    • stimulus strength
  • Moveme

N

  • neurohormones
  • neuromodulators
  • neurotransmitters

O

  • operant conditioning
  • operational sex ratio
  • optimality theory

P

  • phylogeny
  • polyandry
  • polygynandry
  • polygyny
  • polymorphism
  • polyphenism
  • promiscuity, [1]

R

  • reproductive variance, [1]
  • reverse genetics

S

  • sensory filter
  • sex ratio
  • sign stimuli
  • stickleback aggression
  • stimulus strength
    • motivation
  • stimulus threshold

By Dr. Krista Perks
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