Animal Behavior and Survival Strategies

Animal Behaviour

• A fundamental aspect of an animal’s daily life is behaviour.
• The primary focus of neurobiology in the context of animal behaviour is to understand how the nervous system controls behaviour.
• A limitation of early studies of animal behaviour was that they were often anecdotal and lacked scientific rigor.
• A significant technological advancement that aided the study of animal behaviour was the development of high-speed cameras, which allowed researchers to capture and analyze animal movements in detail.
• A potential problem with conducting experiments on captive wild-caught animals is that they may be stressed or behave differently than they would in the wild.
• The primary concern of every animal, according to the dilemma of every animal, is to survive and reproduce.
• The question of how does the behaviour develop is NOT one of Tinbergen's 4 questions.
• The primary benefit of the increasing number of studies on various topics and species in ethology is the ability to draw more general conclusions about animal behavior.
• An animal is any multicellular organism that cannot produce its own food and must obtain nutrition by consuming other organisms or their products.
• A limitation of early studies in ethology was that they often focused on a small number of species and behaviors.