Animal Behavior
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Animal Behavior
Editor(s):
Peter Ngabo
Why do praying mantises display a unique mating system, called
sexual cannibalism, where a member of a male-female pair kills and
consumes the other during courtship or copulation? At the end of every
summer, why do more than 100 million monarch butterflies sweep across
North America to overwinter further south in California and Mexico?
Animal behavior is the study of these and other questions about why
animals behave the way they do.
The study of animal behavior
begins with understanding how an animal’s physiology and anatomy are
integrated with its behavior. Both external and internal stimuli prompt
behaviors — external information (e.g., threats from other animals,
sounds, smells) or weather and internal information (e.g., hunger,
fear). Understanding how genes and the environment come together to
shape animal behavior is also an important underpinning of the field.
Genes capture the evolutionary responses of prior populations to
selection on behavior. Environmental flexibility gives animals the
opportunity to adjust to changes during their own lifetime.
Scientists
are drawn to the study of animal behavior for varied reasons and the
field is extremely broad, ranging from research on feeding behavior and
habitat selection to mating behavior and social organizations. Many
scientists study animal behavior because it sheds light on human beings.
Research on non-human primates, for instance, continues to offer
valuable perspectives into the causes and evolution of individual,
social, and reproductive human actions. Understanding why some animals
help others at the potential cost of their own survival and
reproduction, for example, not only gives us insight into their behavior
but could also potentially help us to understand the underpinnings of
our species' ideas of altruism and sacrifice.
Other scientists
are motivated by environmental concerns. When we gain insight into
animal behavior, we are in a stronger position to understand vexing
conservation problems, such as how to save endangered species, assess
environmental quality, design nature preserves, and evaluate the
importance of human-related threats to survival in otherwise fit
animals.
To develop a rich understanding of animal behavior,
begin with this introductory overview, and then explore the more than
twenty other summaries you’ll find below.
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