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What is Ethology? Jensen (2017)

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the science of animal behaviour, its causation and function

2
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Applied Ethology

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science of behaviour in natural environement, especially where animals are managed by humans

3
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What is behaviour? Cartwright (2002)

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anything the animal does, the whole animal’s adjustment to changes inside body and in environment and is always an organized action

4
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Behaviourism- Skinner/Thorndyke

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lab exps
mechanism of learning and acquisition
general rules of behaviour
independent of evolution
applied learning theory
5
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European school- Lorenz/Tinbergen

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newer
observed animals and adaptive behaviours
Individual strategies; laying importance on species specific behaviours

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Tinbergens 4 Qs

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  1. What is the causation of the behaviour?
  2. What is the function of the behaviour?
  3. How did the behaviour develop during ontogeny?
  4. How did the behaviour develop during phylogeny?
7
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Missing themes from tinbergens Qs

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Jensen- animal perception
emotion behind behaviour
Bateson & Laland- of what are animals aware

8
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Welfare assessment

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assessing behaviour of captive animals and deciding what this tells us about how well we are caring for them

9
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Optimizing production

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maxmizing perfomance/profit

10
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Behaviour control

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managing animals- interactions with humans, training, technical equipment

11
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Other

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conservation and comparison

12
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How is behaviour studied?

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observation

experiments

13
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Benefits of studying animal behaviour

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improving production, management, welfare

improving interactions as companions, leisure