Animal Behavior
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ethogram | description of all possible behaviors you could observe. Know what is normal for your animals |
| General Categories of Behavior | Allelomimetic, Ingestive and Eliminative, Maintenance, Communicative, Shelter-seeking, Sexual, Caregiving and Care Soliciting, Agonistic |
| Allelomimetic Behavior | gregarious species tend to do the same thing at the same time ie grazing, drinking, walking, the dominant animal leads group |
| Gregarious | friendly, very sociable, live in communities |
| Non allelomimetic behavior | withdrawn from group |
| Ingestive and Eliminative Behavior | foraging, grazing throughout the day, deposition, indiscrimnate: cattle, sheep, goats, and chickens, definite: swine, horses, rabbits |
| Non ingestive and eliminative behavior | not eating, or drinking, abnormal feces, excessive eliminations |
| Maintenance Behavior | condition of feathers, hair, skin, preening, bathing, grooming |
| Non maintenance behavior | desheveled appearance, missing patches of hair or feathers |
| Communicative Behaviors | vocal and non vocal |
| Vocal communicative behaviors | vocal: maintain contact aggression, greeting, warning. |
| Non vocal communicative behaviors | Non vocal signals, ear positions or angles, tail motions, hair or feathers raised |
| non communicative behaviors | not vocalizing, strange vocalizations, listless/droopy, body or head positions, avoid group members |
| Shelter Seeking Behavior | seek comfortable environment, shade or water, windbreak or top of hill, escape predators or threats like perching |
| Sexual Behaviors Cows | cows stand to be mounted |
| Sexual Behaviors Mares | mares squat and vulva winks |
| Sexual Behaviors Sows | sows actively seek out boars and lock legs |
| Estrus | state when femailes are receptive to mating |
| Estrous | the cycle of menistral period |
| Sexual Behaviors Males | courtship displays in poultry - lowered wing dance |
| Flehmen response | allows detection of estrus hormones |
| Caregiving Behavior | nesting, licking baby, increased protection, nursing |
| Care Soliciting Behavior | distince vocalizations when separated from mother |
| Fighting Agonistic Behavior | any behavior related to fighting includes threat displays and retreats also |
| Priority Agonistic Behavior | animals need to establish priority access to food, mates, preferred areas, results in hierarchy |
| Maladaptive Behavior | repetitive behaviors that serve no obvious function, feather pecking, sham dustbathing, tail and bar biting , pacing, weaving, tongue rolling, cribbing |
| What can contribute to maladaptive behavior | crowded housing |
| why should we study behavior | decide how to change management for improved productivity and welfare |
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