Animal Behavior Objectives
| Historical Perspectives
The student will be able to: |
State Standard |
| 1. identify the prehistory and the work of the pioneers in Animal Behavior | 12.8.1 |
| 2. understand how Animal Behavior is a science. | 12.2.1 |
| 3. summarize the various approaches to Ethology (developmental, ecological, evolutionary, and physiological) | 12.4.6 |
| 4. construct, diagram, and evaluate the use and function of ethograms. | 12.1.2
12.1.3 12.2.1 |
| Evolutionary Perspectives
The student will be able to: |
State Standard |
| 1. label and describe behaviors as proximate or ultimate causes of selection pressure. | 12.1.5 |
| 2. explain the influence of Darwinian Theory as it relates to animal behavior | 12.4.3 |
| 3. discriminate between the types of selection as a function of adaptation of animal behaviors (natural, artificial, and sexual selection theory). | 12.1.5
12.4.3 |
| 4. discriminate between the patterns and phylogeny of animal behaviors (cladistics, taxonomy and morphology). | 12.1.1
12.1.2 |
| Developmental Perspectives
The student will be able to: |
State Standard |
| 1. understand the basics of Genetics and the role of DNA and genes in the expression of behaviors in animals AND explain how genes serve as the basis of behavior. | 12.4.2 |
| 2. describe the Interactive Theory and the role of hormones in the behavior of animals. | 12.1.4
12.4.2 |
| 3. explain how Nervous Systems control motor responses in animal behaviors. | 12.1.4 |
| 4. explain the role of perception and stimulus filtering in organisms. | 12.4.5 |
| 5. describe how imprinting is a function of the development of kin recognition | 12.4.4
12.4.6 |
| 6. describe and give examples of how Circadian Rhythms function as a timekeeping device. | 12.4.4
12.4.6 |
| 7. predict which animals undergo Circannual Cyles such as migration and hibernation. | 12.4.4
12.4.6 |
| Communication
The student will be able to: |
State Standard |
| 1. explain how behavior results from the communication of a signaler to a receiver. | 12.4.4 |
| 2. explain how communication results from genetic expression and environmental influences. | 12.4.2
12.4.6 |
| 3. identify the purpose, specific content, and structure of specific behaviors. | 12.1.1 |
| 4. give examples of how communication is adaptive. | 12.1.5 |
| 5. describe differing forms of communication (acoustic, visual, tactile, chemical cues, and electric) | 12.1.4
12.3.1 |
| 6. describe social and cultural implications of behavior. | 12.7.2 |
| Innate Behaviors
The student will be able to: |
State Standard |
| 1. identify foraging as a feeding behavior of some animals. | 12.4.6 |
| 2. identify predation behaviors as food finding strategies of some animals.. | 12.4.6 |
| 3. identify anti-predation behaviors and describe their importance to survival (territoriality, dominance hierarchies, and fighting behaviors). | 12.4.6 |
| 4. compare and contrast different habitat selection methods and determine their importance to survival. | 12.4.6 |
| 5. identify different mating systems and courtship rituals that function as reproductive strategies in different animal species. | 12.4.6 |
| 6. describe diverse parenting behaviors that result from animal survival. | 12.4.6
12.7.2 |
| Learned Behaviors
The student will be able to: |
State Standard |
| 1. describe how habituation aids in the non-associative learning of an animal. | 12.4.6 |
| 2. describe how animals learn behaviors through associate classical conditioning found in animal populations. | 12.4.6 |
| 3. describe how animals learn behaviors through associative operant conditioning. | 12.4.6 |
| 4. explain how associative learned behaviors such as insight learning and cognition are different in capable animal species. | 12.4.6 |