| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. |
| Associative Learning | Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning). |
| Agnostic Behavior | A type of behavior involving a contest of some kind that determines which competitor gains access to some resource, such as food or mates. |
| Ritual | A type of symbolic activity. |
| behavior | what an animal does and how they do it |
| ethology | the study of animal behavior |
| Behavioral Biology | focuses on the interaction between animals and their enviroments from an evolutionary perspective |
| Foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions |
| Polygynous | Having more than one wife or female mate at a time. |
| Polygamous | Pairing with more than one female. |
| Maturation | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
| habituation | loss of responsiveness to unimportant stimuli |
| Altruism | is the deliberate pursuit of the interests or welfare of others or the public interest. |
| Anthropomorphism | the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena. |
| Cognitive Ethology | The study of animal intelligence and its evolution |
| Cognitive Maps | A representation within the nervous system of spatial relations among objects in an animal's environment |
| Play | to engage in, to perform, to act as part of |
| Cognition | the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Courtship | the wooing of one person by another |
| Parental investment | The resources, including time, physical effort, and risk to life that a parent spends in procreation and in the feeding, nurturing and protecting offspring |
| promiscuous | casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior |
| monogamous | a mating relationship wherein one male and one female mate only with each other |
| Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. |
| Associative Learning | Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning). |
| Agnostic Behavior | A type of behavior involving a contest of some kind that determines which competitor gains access to some resource, such as food or mates. |
| Ritual | A type of symbolic activity. |
| behavior | what an animal does and how they do it |
| ethology | the study of animal behavior |
| Behavioral Biology | focuses on the interaction between animals and their enviroments from an evolutionary perspective |
| Foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions |
| Polygynous | Having more than one wife or female mate at a time. |
| Polygamous | Pairing with more than one female. |
| Maturation | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
| habituation | loss of responsiveness to unimportant stimuli |
| Dominance hierarchy | A linear "paking order" of animal, where position dictates characteristic social behavior |
| territoriality | the act of declaring control over a specific area to tell the others to stay away from it. |
| migration | cyclic movement over long distances. |
| social behavior | any kind of interaction between two or more animals, usually of the same spicies. |
| Innate Behavior | behavior that an organism is born with and does not have to be learned, such as a reflex or instinct |
| Learned Behavior | a behavior that has been learned from experience or observation. |
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