PRIMATE BEHAVIOR

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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?

Describe dominance

• When?

Feeding? Travel?
Aggressive? Leadership? Displacement?

• How?

• Why?

Benefits received?

• Where?

What season or housing situation?
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Tinbergens four areas of inquiry

• Causation

How does it work?

• Development

How did it develop? (learned)

• Function

Why do it? What is for?

• Evolution

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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Youll be doing research in no time.