animal behavior
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Animal Behavior. Orientation behaviours : Kineses Taxes. Environmental Stimuli. A slater retreating to a daytime crevice could be responding to the dampness , darkness or coolness. Can experiment to determine which factors influence behaviour. Experiments. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Animal BehaviorOrientation behaviours:
KinesesTaxes
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Environmental Stimuli
• A slater retreating to a daytime crevice could be responding to the dampness, darkness or coolness.
• Can experiment to determine which factors influence behaviour
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ExperimentsChoice chambers offer alternative conditionsFair test - all others factors are kept the same.
• Can test effect of temperature, light, humidity
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Simple Responses - immediate surroundings
Kineses and Taxes have an immediate benefit e.g. a slater moving into a damper place.
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TaxesMovement towards or away from a stimulus
Negative = away
Positive = towards
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Taxes
Snails climb vertically upwards.
Negative geotaxis
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Taxes
Mosquitoes home in on warm flesh.
Positive thermotaxis
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Taxes
Blowfly maggots move rapidly away
from a directional
light source.
Negative phototaxis
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Positive phototaxis
Positive phototaxis = movement towards the light e.g. many swimming algae
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Positive Chemotaxis
eg male moths following a pheromone trail given off by females
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Negative PhototaxisSlime Mold
The direction of the light source is indicated by white rectangles.
e.g. earthworms
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Positive chemotaxis
When a capillary tube filled with glucose is placed in a medium containing E. coli, the bacteria alter their locomotion so that they congregate near the opening of the tube.
Mosquitoes towards people along CO2 gradient
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Positive rheotaxisMovement against a current
e.g. salmon migrating upstream
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Kinesis• Animals have specific needs (eg food, humidity)• No information about the location of resource? • Undirected search
• Kinesis = random movement due to the presence of a stimulus. The rate of activity is determined by the intensity of the stimulus – not the direction
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Search methods• Undirected search: animal moves in a more
or less straight line through unsuitable habitat.
• Directed search: when it begins to perceive better conditions (the blue area) it slows down and turns sharper angles to stay in the vicinity of the improved conditions.
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stim
ulus
random movements to get awayslow down as animal gets further away
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stim
ulus
ALTERNATIVELYanimal moves directly away in a straight line
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Hydrokinesis
Orthokinesis = stimulus intensity determines speed
e.g. slater’s rate of movement is inversely proportional to the humidity
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Thermokinesis
Klinokinesis = stimulus intensity determines rate of turning eg lice turn less often at 30° - straight line. Human skin temp is about 35° lice more likely to linger at 35°.
Human body louse
35 o 30 o
Orthokinesis and klinokinesis movies