VOCAB - MUGANIZED

Behavioral Ecology
Carrying Capacity
Circadian Rhythms
Classical Conditioning
Critical Period
Cultural Learning
Dominance Hierarchy
Drives
Ethology
Fixed Action Patterns
Food Learning
Group living
Imprinting
Instinct
Monogamy
Navigaion
Niche Rule
Parental investment
Pheromones
Polygamy
Releasers
Ritualized Dominance
Sensory
Sexual Communication
Sexual Dimorphism
Sexual Selection
Sign Stimulus
Social Communication
Supernormal Stimuli
Territories
Trial and Error


ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - Animal interactions with surroundings, others and each other.
     Topic Goal - Describe how animal behaviors help organisms to survive.

STAGE 4 - THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
Stage Goals - Make inferences relating communication to survival of the species
  Assess which is more successful - territorial behavior or group living.
  Describe the advantages and disadvantages of both sides of the parental investement behavior.

What is a niche - a picture explanation
Carrying capacity - the bucket analogy
Predator Prey relationships
Altruistic Behaviors
Courtship Displays
Dramatic Examples of Sexual Dimorphism
Parental investment
The Behavior of Habitat Selection
Monarch Butterfly Habitat Selection
Living in extreme cold
Living in extreme Dry conditions
Living in extreme heat



Teritoriality response
in Tigers

Mugan Explains Behavioral Ecology

Altruism



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DISCUSSION
Animal Behavior ideas

LINKS OF INTEREST
BBC Nature Site

ASSESSMENT
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