Animal Behavior

This week in AP Biology we talked about animal behavior. Animal behavior is simply the scientific study of an animal's behavior. Every animal does something unique to figure out situations and to of course survive. The two main types of animal behavior is innate behavior and learned behavior. Innate behavior is something you know from day one and learned behavior is obviously something that you learn how to do, such as teaching your pet dog tricks. Other examples of animal behavior is instinct, fixed action pattern, imprinting, associative learning, trail and error, habituation, observational learning, and insight. Each one of these examples are completely different. Instinct is something an animal has on day one and does automatically. fixed action pattern is a series of patterns until complete. Trail and error is when an animal taught something and goes through trial and error ( hence the name) until they eventually catch on. Insight is when an animal is given a problem and they have to figure it out also some animals don't have insight, so they will not be able to figure situations. An animal that does have an insight is a chimpanzee. An example of a situation is when you put a chimpanzee in a room with a few boxes and a banana tied to the ceiling, the chimpanzee would eventually figure it out. Animal behavior is a very interesting thing because of the many different examples and animal can have. We started on a animal behavior lab about pill bugs in different environments and so far it has been really fun and interesting.