ANIMAL
BEHAVIOR
3 B EHAVIOR TYPES
1.Innate
2.Learned
3.Social
INNATE
 Instinctual or Inborn behavior
 Successful on the first try but
can get better with maturation.
1. Migration: Movement from a cold
location to a warm location to
increase your chances for finding food
and surviving.
INNATE
2. Suckling: The drawing of milk into
the mouth from the nipple of the
mammary gland.
INNATE
3. Phototaxis: The movement toward
or away from light.

Ex: Moths to light; Cockroaches
away from light
LEARNED

Acquired

Modified with experience
1.
Habituation: Stop responding to irrelevant
stimuli because no reward or punishment is received.

Ignoring a loud running refrigerator sound.

A bird not being scared by every overhead shadow.
LEARNED
2. Trial & Error: Trying a variety of
methods until the correct one is
found.
LEARNED
3. Classical Conditioning:
When one stimulus causes
and emotional response and
one does not. When both
stimuli are presented
together, and association is
made and the stimulus that
did not cause an emotional
response will then begin to.
LEARNED
4.
Imprinting: Mimicking the first thing
seen after birth.

Duckling following their mama.
SOCIAL

Communication
1. Territorial Defense:
Animal protects its
space and resources from other animals.

Siamese Fighting Fish: Males are very
aggressive toward each other. They try to
dominate and will fight until one wins.
SOCIAL
2. Social Structure

Pheromones: Scents produced by animals that send
a message.

Courtship Dances: Formalized flirtation between two
sexes of a species.