Monday, March 10, 2008
Watching animal around me seem become my new hobby recently. They are not only cute looking
but also have funny behavior. Even my neighbour has a cat that can urinate in the bathroom.
There are still many examples that we often see around us or from television. Animal,indeed,
can be trained to do something as what his master want to. Take an example of dog which
could conduct such a fantastic behavior to help its master.
Funk and Wagnalls said that every species of animal act differently. Each eats a certain
food, lives in certain way. The ways an animal act are the behavior of the animal which is
defined as the way an animal responds to its surrounding or enveronment. And a scientist who
studies an animal behavior is called ethnologist.
Ethnologist explained that there are 2 main types of animal behavior those are Instinctive
and learned.
The instinctive behavior ia a behavior that animal inherits from its parents. A young fish
doesn't learn how to swim right after it is born. Whereas the learned behavior is a behavior that has to be taught to the animals. A dog doesn't know how to recognize a drug until he is taught to do so.
Instinctive Behavior
An ethnologist can find out which behavior is learned by taking every young animal away from
all other members of its species. The animal's behavior will be instinctive because there is
no other animal to teach it.
As Funk and Wagnalls stated that the most of the coutship and mating behavior is caused or
triggered, by a signal called releaser. Releaser may be sight,sounds,smells,feels or tastes. For instance, the sight of hawk overhead is a releaser for mouse to run and hide. And the releaser of an animal to eat is hunger.
Learned Behavior
According to them this kind of behavior is learned from experience. A dog learned to avoid
busy highway. In fact, many animals are trained by human to gain a particular behavior that
they need. For example Dolphin jumps into ring of fire are displaying succesfully learned
behavior. Moreover, Funk and Wagnalls informed that vertebrates have better developed brains
than invertebrates, so they are better in learning behavior.
but also have funny behavior. Even my neighbour has a cat that can urinate in the bathroom.
There are still many examples that we often see around us or from television. Animal,indeed,
can be trained to do something as what his master want to. Take an example of dog which
could conduct such a fantastic behavior to help its master.
Funk and Wagnalls said that every species of animal act differently. Each eats a certain
food, lives in certain way. The ways an animal act are the behavior of the animal which is
defined as the way an animal responds to its surrounding or enveronment. And a scientist who
studies an animal behavior is called ethnologist.
Ethnologist explained that there are 2 main types of animal behavior those are Instinctive
and learned.
The instinctive behavior ia a behavior that animal inherits from its parents. A young fish
doesn't learn how to swim right after it is born. Whereas the learned behavior is a behavior that has to be taught to the animals. A dog doesn't know how to recognize a drug until he is taught to do so.
Instinctive Behavior
An ethnologist can find out which behavior is learned by taking every young animal away from
all other members of its species. The animal's behavior will be instinctive because there is
no other animal to teach it.
As Funk and Wagnalls stated that the most of the coutship and mating behavior is caused or
triggered, by a signal called releaser. Releaser may be sight,sounds,smells,feels or tastes. For instance, the sight of hawk overhead is a releaser for mouse to run and hide. And the releaser of an animal to eat is hunger.
Learned Behavior
According to them this kind of behavior is learned from experience. A dog learned to avoid
busy highway. In fact, many animals are trained by human to gain a particular behavior that
they need. For example Dolphin jumps into ring of fire are displaying succesfully learned
behavior. Moreover, Funk and Wagnalls informed that vertebrates have better developed brains
than invertebrates, so they are better in learning behavior.
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klu blogvertise blm dpt GBT (task) mgkn PR masih blm memenuhi syarat, kalau ga ya usia blog yg masih baru... kalau mau chat di YM di buzz saya aja maz...
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