| TERMS I DEFINITIONS | |
| Behavior | The activities animals perform during their lifetime are called animal behavior. |
| Ethology | The study of animal behavior on the basis of evolution and the natural environment is called ethology. |
| Sociobiology | The study of the evolution of social behavior is called sociobiology |
| Proximate causes | More immediate ecological and physiological causes of behavior are called proximate causes. It includes eating to
satisfy hunger . |
| Anthropomorphism | The application of human characteristics to anything not human is called anthropomorphism. |
| Maturation | Some – behavior patterns appear only after a specific
developmental stage or time. This stage or time is called maturation. – |
| Instincts | The inherited behavior is called instincts. |
| Learning | The change of behavior by life experiences is called learning. |
| Habituation | The decrease in response to repeated or continuous stimulation is called habituation. |
| Classical conditioning | Pairing of an irrelevant stimulus with a natural primary
stimulus that produces an automatic response is called classical conditioning. |
| instrumental conditioning | The trial and error learning is called instrumental |
| Insight Learning | The uses cognitive or mental processes to associate
experiences and solve problems •are called insight |
| Foraging behavior | The process of locating food resources is called foraging behavior. |
| Group | An aggregation of animals for some simple purpose like feeding, drinking, or mating is called group. |
| Animal Society | A stable group of individuals of the same species that
maintains a cooperative social relationship is called |
| Agnostic behavior | The behavior in which one animal is aggressive or attacks
another animal, the other responds by returning the |
| Dominance hierarchies | The organization of group of animals in such a way that some members of the group have greater access to
resources like food or mates than others is called |
| Territory | The site defend by territorial animal by agnostic behavior is called territory of the animal. |
| Altruism | The interaction in which an individual gives up or
sacrifices some of its own reproductive potential to benefit another individual is called altruism. |
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