AVS-4100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Multisensory Integration, Chronobiology
11 Nov 2020
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30,000 years old): other famous caves include, cosquer, france (ca. Imprinted onto the subject: niko tinbergen the father of scientific study of ethology . Birds (experimental: developed very precise methodology for observing and recording behavior in the field, designed experiments to alter the behavior of free- living animals to determine how behavior would change (stress physiology, tinbergen"s four questions. 4: 1st question: causation, what is the causation of the behaviors; immediate causes stimulate certain behavior. For example: how did the behavior evolve during the history of the species, practice, tail wagging, 1st question: causation. Yes: criteria, for behavior to be shaped by evolution it must meet all of the following criteria, (deducted from darwin"s original writings, variable: the trait must vary across individuals of the population (identical = no evolution) Optimal foraging theory (krebs & davies, 1991: 3 fight: attack or retreat, evolution selected animals with the highest fitness and they are the optimal ones, transmission of behavior.
