animal behavior why do animals move? to stalk for food climb for food fighting for territory mating...
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Animal Behavior
Why do animals move?
To stalk for food
Climb for food
Fighting for territory
mating
migration
Catch Food
Owl swooping on a mouse
Catch Food
Bees fly to get nectar from a flower
Catch Food
Koala bears climb trees to get to eucalyptus leaves.
Catch Food
Jellyfish harpoon and lasso prey.
Catch food
Chimpanzee uses tools.
How to avoid being eaten?
•At any given moment, an animal diner can become another animals dinner!
•What does that mean?
Animals looking for food often have to think about other things besides which food looks or tastes the best.
They have to pass on a good meal if getting it is too dangerous.
Some animals hide out.Rabbit freezes
Some Mimic
Caterpillar camouflaged as a twig!
Mimics a rock
Mimic the environment
Mimics the leaves
Some are in your face with warnings
Horns of a bull
Spines of a porcupine
These signal trouble to a potential predator!
Some use chemicals
Skunk
Bombardier beetle
Bees, ants, & wasps inject a powerful acid into their attackers.
Some have deadly toxins
Poison dart frogs
Black-headed Pitohui bird
The pitohui is one of the few poisonous birds. This is not the only unusual thing about this colorful, foul-smelling bird, however. The poison that the bird emits—homobatrachotoxin—is the same poison made by the New World strawberry dart-poison frog. How can two species that are so different produce the same poison? Scienctists are now exploring the mystery!!
Warning Colors
Many times poisonous animals use color to WARN predators of their poison.
Warning colorsPredators will avoid animals with colors and patterns that they associate with pain, illness or an unpleasant experience.Most common warning colors are vivid red, yellow, orange, and black with white.
Wasp
Poison frog
Innate BehaviorDoesn’t depend on learning.Doesn’t depend on experiences.They are influenced by our genes.
Puppies chew
Our ability to walk
Fly is born to fly.
Baby whales have the ability to swim.
Innate behavior can be modified by learning. Birds are born with the ability to sing, but it takes time for the skill to develop
Animal school•Learning can modify an innate behavior
•We inherit the ability to speak, but the language we speak is learned.
Many animals learn by watching their parents.