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Animal Reproduction
GD Ch 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mammals & Birds | -animals that care for their babies |
| Stimulus (stimuli) | -a signal that causes an organism to react in some way |
| Response | -a reaction to a stimulus |
| Behavior | - all of the actions that an animal performs |
| Instinct | -responses to a stimulus that is inborn & performed correctly the first time |
| Learning | -process that leads to changes in behaviors based on practice or experience |
| Imprinting | -when newborn or hatched animals recognize & follow the first moving object they see |
| Conditioning | -learning that a particular stimulus or response leads to a good or bad outcome |
| Trial-and-error learning | -when an animal learns to do a behavior through repeated practice |
| Insight learning | -solving a problem or learning how to do something new by applying what you already know without using trail & error |
| Animal communication | -animals use sounds, scents & body movements |
| Pheromone | -chemical scents that animals release that affect the behavior of another animals of that same species |
| Aggression | -threatening behavior that an animal may use to gain control over another |
| Territory | -an area that is occupied & defended by an animal or group of animals |
| Courtship behavior | -activities that prepare males & females of the same species for mating |
| Cooperative behaviors | -when animals in a group work together to survive |
| Society | -animals of a same species that work together in an highly organized way. |
| Circadian ryhthms | -behavior cycles that occur over a period of one day |
| Hibernation | -a state of greatly reduced body activities that occurs during the winter or when food is scare. |
| Migration | -a regular, seasonal journey of animals from one place to another and back again. |
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