BIO SCI 94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Behavioral Ecology

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIO SCI 94
• Professor: Robin Bush

Document Summary

Earth is tilted on its axis by 23. 5 degrees. Action in response to stimulus from the environment. Study of how organisms respond to particular abiotic and biotic stimuli from their environment. Much of animal behavior is thought to be adaptive. Clicker question: prairie dogs detect predators using their eyes. They then alert other prairie dogs nearby to the danger by vocalizing. The need to escape danger is ___ cause of their vocalization behavior. Highly stereotypical unlearned behavior patterns that have three characteristics: almost no variation in how they are performed, species specific, once the sequence of actions begins, it continues until completion. Upon hatching, duckling adopt as their mother the first moving thing they see. Animals forage in a way that maximizes the amount of usable energy they take in, given the costs of finding and ingesting their food and the risk of being eaten while they"re at it. Conditional behavioral strategies: behavioral responses that depend on particular conditions.