Learning to Describe and Quantify Animal Behavior

摘要: Publisher Summary Research in animal behavior typically focuses on providing insight into the causation, development, adaptive value, or evolution of particular patterns. To investigate such issues, researchers must be able to observe and describe details behavior, including detecting differences similarities among actions performed under differing social environmental circumstances by individual animals characteristics as age, sex, species. Making comparisons requires quantification behavior. In order for observers quantify behavioral acts, each type act that is measured clearly defined. Before deciding which patterns define measure, researcher first spend time observing describing a variety seen research study species so they can decide what questions are reasonable