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Behavioral Ecology

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Behavioral Ecology   Study of animal behavior  
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Behavior   Everything an animal does and how it does it (a series of responses to changes in stimuli)  
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Proximate Questions   "How" questions such as what stimuli impact the behavior or the anatomy and physiology behind the action  
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"Does the day length trigger courtship behaviors?"   Proximate Question  
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Ultimate Questions   "Why" questions, how the behavior is adaptive  
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"Why court at this time?"   Ultimate Question  
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Ethology   Study of behavior in nature  
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What is the evolutionary history?   Ultimate question  
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How does it aid survival and reproduction?   Ultimate question  
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Fixed Action Patterns   Instinctual behavior initiated by a sign stimulus and generally carried to completion once initiated  
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Greyleg Goose   Fixed action pattern  
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Three-spined Stickleback   Fixed action pattern- attacks those with red bellies  
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Imprinting   Forming a bond during a critical period  
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Innate Behavior   Essentially constant for a species, strong genetic component  
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Signal   Behavior that elicits a change in another  
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Communication   Transmission, receptions, and response to a signal  
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Kinesis   Simple change in activity or turning rate in response to a stimulus  
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Taxis   Automatic, oriented movement toward or away from some stimulus  
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Trout   Positive rheotaxis  
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Learning   Modifying behavior through experience  
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Habituation   Learning to ignore irrelevant stimuli  
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Spatial Learning   Advanced learning with those aware of an environments spacial structure  
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Tinbergen's digger wasps   Use landmarks- location indicators  
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Cognitive Maps   Not only learning landmarks but the relationships between objects to reduce the amount of detail needed to relocate an item  
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Clark's nutcrackers   Cognitive maps  
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Associative Learning   Pairing one one stimulus with another  
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Classical conditioning   Pairing an insignificant stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus until a connection is made and it becomes a conditioned stimulus  
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Pavlov's Dogs   Classical conditioning  
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Operant conditioning   Pairing behavior with reward or punishment  
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Skinner's rats   Operant conditioning  
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Tic-Tac-Toe Chickens   Operant conditioning  
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Cognition   Ability to pick up information and process it  
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Cognitive Ethology   Examines connection between an animal's nervous system and it's behavior  
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Optimal foraging strategy   Optimizing nutrition while minimizing obtaining costs  
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Intrasexual Production   Members of one sex selecting males based on trait of the other sex  
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Agnostic behavior   Often reutilized contest/fight for resources  
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Nash's Game Theory   Evaluating strategies where you must consider what strategies others are using  
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Side-blotched Lizards   Game theory  
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Rock-paper-scissors   Game theory  
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Altruism   Acting in a way that benefits others  
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Prairie dog warnings   Altruism  
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Inclusive Fitness   Aiding those closely relating to you so that the genes you share can increase in the populations  
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Kin Selection   Enhancing reproductive success of relatives  
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Reciprocal Altruism   "I'll help you if you help me" in social groups  
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Social Learning   Learning from others  
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Culture   Information transfer via social learning or teaching  
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Mate choice copying   Selecting a mate based on other females preferences  
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Sociobiology   How has human behavior been shaped by natural selection  
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Pavlov   Classical conditioning  
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BF Skinner   Operant conditioning  
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Wilson   Sociobiology  
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Tingergen   Wasps and Sickleback fish  
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Lorenz   Imprinting  
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Sign Stimulus   Trigger fixed-action patterns  
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Receptors   Prairie Vole Monogamy  
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Sexual Behavior   Cooperation, Communication, Diminish ni aggression  
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Balanced polymorphism   Marine Isopods  
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