ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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evolutionary and environmental context of behavior
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describing behavior in the animal’s natural habitat
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general laws of behavior that apply across many species
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social behavior
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Detailed explanation-1: -Behavioral ecology joins the study of animal behavior to evolutionary biology; its goal is to explain how behavior determines fitness. The goal of ecology is to explain the outcomes of interactions of organisms with their environments, including other organisms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Behavioural ecology is the study of behavioural interactions between individuals within populations and communities, usually in an evolutionary context. It looks at how competition and cooperation between and within species affects evolutionary fitness.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because behavioral ecology is an inherently evolutionary subject, much of the way in which practitioners study behavioral ecology is structured around evolutionary mechanisms and adaptive explanations of behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -Behavioral ecology examines the evolution of behaviors that allow animals to adapt to and thrive in their habitats. There are two broad categories of behavior-learned and instinctive.
Detailed explanation-5: -In part this difference reflects a different emphasis on what needs to be explained: evolutionary psychologists argue that psychological mechanisms are the main unit of analysis, whereas human behavioral ecologists focus more on behavior.