F: Behaviour

Question 1

Tinberg’s 4 Questions to understand behaviour

Answer 1

1. Mechanism/ Causation
2. Function (biological fitness value)
3. Evolution
4. Development/ ontogeny

Question 2

Ethogram

Answer 2

Inventory of behaviours of an animal

Question 3

Abnormal

Answer 3

Different from wild behaviour or the statistical norm (from current housing)

Question 4

Distress

Answer 4

Behaviour related to poor welfare

Question 5

Stereotypies

Answer 5

Abnormal, repetitive, invariant behaviour with no purpose

Question 6

2 methods to clinically assess pain within an animal

Answer 6

1. Visual Analogue Scoring
2. Behaviour scoring (general and species specific)

Question 7

Behavioural development facts (3)

Answer 7

1. Early life: “what we learn first, we learn best.”
2. Learning all throughout life
3. Maximizing good, minimizing bad

Question 8

Habituation

Answer 8

Repeated exposure, decreased response

Question 9

Sensitisation

Answer 9

Repeated exposure, increased response

Question 10

Classical conditioning

Answer 10

Learning 1 stimuli, predicting another

Question 11

Operant conditioning

Answer 11

Knowing consequences of actions based on past experiences