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PRIMATE BEHAVIOR
Ethology = “...biology is its mother, whereas for a father, a very plain zoologist, Charles Darwin” Lorenz
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Behavior is….
• “The study of behavior encompasses all the movements and sensations by which animals mediate their relationship with the external world- physical, biological, and social”.
Alexander
• “Actions carried out by an individual subject”
Patterson
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Questions to be asked….
• What?
• When?
• How?
• Why?
• Where?
Describe dominance
Feeding? Travel?
Aggressive? Leadership? Displacement?
Benefits received?
What season or housing situation?
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Tinbergen’s four areas of inquiry
• Causation
• Development
• Function
• Evolution
How does it work?
How did it develop? (learned)
Why do it? What is for?
How did it evolve?
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How do we do it?
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Things to think about...
• Field versus captive
• Species
• Anthropomorphism
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Research
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Captive work
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Anthropomorphism
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What is the process (list…)
• Ask a question
• Preliminary data
• Form Hypothesis and predictions
• Decide what to measure
• Choose methods to help you measure
• Collect
• Analyze and interpret
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You’ll be doing research in no time….You’ll be doing research in no time….