Animal Behavior

3. Periodic long-distance travel from one location to another
5. The ability to adapt past experiences that may involve different stimuli to solve a new problem
7. Animals active at dawn and/or dusk
8. Conditioning an animal learns a behavior to receive positive reinforcement or to avoid punishment.
10. One female mates with many males
11. Establishes a parent-offspring bond during a critical period early in development, ensuring that the offspring recognizes the mother
14. What an animal does and how it does it, usually in response to stimuli in its environment
15. Automatic behavior that once activate by a simple sensory stimulus, continues to completion regardless of sensory feedback.
16. Mating with a single partner during a breeding season; less common

1. Type of learning in which an animal learns to ignore a repeated, irrelevant stimulus, allowing it to focus on finding food and other life activities.
2. Behavior that benefits all
4. Animals active during the day
6. Animals active at night
9. Favored by sexual selection; a mating system in which one male mates with many females
12. Behavior that is modified in response to environmental experience
13. Behavior that results from the interaction of genes