Ethogram Student Notes
Ethogram =
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Procedure for making an ethogram
1. identify ___________________
2. ___________________behaviors
3. decide how to ________________behaviors
♦ ___________________of behaviors
♦ Make a __________ if it occurs, no matter _______________________
♦ create _______________- mark amount of ____________during which behavior
occurred
4. decide ____________ to observe - options =
♦ watch _________________= “case study”
• gives _________________________________________________
• ¿ what to do if _________________or can no longer be_________?
♦ Watch ________________________________________
• “_________________the group”
• Decide on______________, scan ______________at interval, record
_______________ of given behavior
• OR randomly______________, observe for________________, then
move to ______________________& do same
Concerns
1. how _____________to recognize behaviors is the_____________?
2. _______________ of the observer
• wild animals do not behave “normally” ______________
• __________________?
• Or _____________observer….
• _________________________
• do I see / interpret same behaviors as you?
(are two observers seeing / recording __________________