Animal Behavior
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| 3524195054 | Agonistic Behavior | In animals, an often ritualized contest that determines which competitor gains access to a resource, such as food or mates. | 0 | |
| 3524195055 | Altruism | Selflessness; behavior that reduces an individual's fitness while increasing the fitness of another individual. | 1 | |
| 3524195056 | Associative Learning | The acquired ability to associate one environmental feature (such as a color) with another (such as danger). | 2 | |
| 3524195057 | Behavioral Ecology | The study of the evolution of and ecological basis for animal behavior. | 3 | |
| 3524195058 | Classical Conditioning | A type of associative learning in which an arbitrary stimulus becomes associated with a particular outcome. | 4 | |
| 3524195061 | Ethology | The scientific study of how animals behave, particularly in their natural environments. | 5 | |
| 3524195062 | Fixed Action Pattern (FAP) | In animal behavior, a sequence of unlearned acts that is essentially unchangeable and, once initiated, usually carried to completion. | 6 | |
| 3524195063 | Habituation | A simple type of learning that involves a loss of responsiveness to stimuli that convey little or no new information. | 7 | |
| 3524195064 | Imprinting | In animal behavior, the formation at a specific stage in life of a long-lasting behavioral response to a specific individual or object. (See also genomic imprinting.) | 8 | |
| 3524195065 | Innate Behavior | Animal behavior that is developmentally fixed and under strong genetic control. This is exhibited in virtually the same form by all individuals in a population despite internal and external environmental differences during development and throughout their lifetimes. | 9 | |
| 3524195066 | Kinesis | A change in activity or turning rate in response to a stimulus. | 10 | |
| 3524195067 | Learning | The modification of behavior based on specific experiences. | 11 | |
| 3524195069 | Operant Conditioning | A type of associative learning in which an animal learns to associate one of its own behaviors with a reward or punishment and then tends to repeat or avoid that behavior; also called trial-and-error learning. | 12 | |
| 3524195070 | Optimal foraging Theory | The basis for analyzing behavior as a compromise between feeding costs and feeding benefits. | 13 | |
| 3524195071 | Pheromone | In animals and fungi, a small molecule released into the environment that functions in communication between members of the same species. In animals, it acts much like a hormone in influencing physiology and behavior. | 14 | |
| 3524195072 | Polyandry | A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males. | 15 | |
| 3524195073 | Polygamous | Referring to a type of relationship in which an individual of one sex mates with several of the other. | 16 | |
| 3524195074 | Reciprocal Altruism | Altruistic behavior between unrelated individuals, whereby the altruistic individual benefits in the future when the beneficiary reciprocates. | 17 | |
| 3524195075 | Sensitive Period | A limited phase in an individual animal's development when learning of particular behaviors can take place; also called a critical period. | 18 | |
| 3524195076 | Sign Stimulus | An external sensory cue that triggers a fixed action pattern by an animal. | 19 | |
| 3524195077 | Signal | In animal behavior, transmission of a stimulus from one animal to another. The term is also used in the context of communication in other kinds of organisms and in cell-to-cell communication in all multicellular organisms. | 20 | |
| 3524195078 | Taxis | An oriented movement toward or away from a stimulus. | 21 |
