BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Karl Von Frisch, Fixed Action Pattern, Sphex
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Proximate: short term processes acting within an individual"s lifetime affecting the behaviour. Developmental: how is the behaviour acquired over an individual"s lifetime. Ultimate: long-term evolutionary processes affecting the behaviour. The wasp studies their environment( his experiment proves) Classical phenomena of ethology-fixed action pattern, releasers and innate releasing mechanism(didn"t understand the nervous system) (gees) famous work imprinting"_ a type of pre-programmed learning in young animals during the critical period of development. Studied bees are sensitive to colour, but in a different range. Decoded the dance language of honey bees. Motor response that is initiated by an environmental stimulus. It is innate, very little to know. Remarkably similar among members of a species (cristorized)(the nergor)(hot so ur body rejects ) Was also studied in geese (if the egg is tied with a string they don"t accept it but they accept a soccer ball)(trigger) Innate behaviours: carried out regardless of an animal"s prior experiences, genetic basis.
