Animal Behaviour FOUR APPROACHES OF ANIMAL BEHVIOUR There
Animal Behaviour
FOUR APPROACHES OF ANIMAL BEHVIOUR • There are the four main apporaches of the animal behaviour. • Comparative psychology • Ethology • Behavioral ecology • Sociobiology
ETHOLOGY • The study of animal behaviour on the basis of evolution and the natural environment is called ethology • They study the behaviour of closely related species. • It gives information about the evolution and origin of certain behaviour patterns. • Ethologists are not intrested in leaerning • Types of Ethology • . altruism in animals. • Animal communication
Comparative Psychology • Comparative psychology study of the genetic, neural and hormonal bases of animal behaviour. • The phychologists performed experiments in laboratory and field. • These experiments help to understand animal learning and development of behaviour • . They also study the processes and nature of the behaviour patterns. • This pattern consists of animals response to their sorrounding
. . • Types of comparative phychology: • • There are the further types: Animal Behaviorist Ethologist Phychology Processor
Behavioral ecology • It emphasizes the ecological aspects of animal behaviour. The behavioural ecologists studie • . Predator-prey interaction • . Foraging strategies • . Habitat selection • . Intraspecific and interspecific competation • . Social behaviour
Sociobiology • The study of the evolution of social behaviour is called sociobiology. • It combines many aspects of ethology and behavioural ecology. • Sociobiologists embhasize the importance of natural selection. • p. Sociobiology founded: • Sosiobiology the systematic study of the biology basis of social behaviour. The term sociobiology was popularized by the American biologists Edward
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